ginger-book is an environment to develop, test, and share your React components faster.
Quick start
mkdir my-ginger-book
cd my-ginger-book
pnpm init
pnpm add @ginger-society/ginger-book react react-dom
mkdir src
echo "export const World = () => <p>Hey</p>;" > src/hello.stories.tsx
pnpm ginger-book serve
with yarn
mkdir my-ginger-book
cd my-ginger-book
yarn init --yes
yarn add @ginger-society/ginger-book react react-dom
mkdir src
echo "export const World = () => <p>Hey</p>;" > src/hello.stories.tsx
yarn ginger-book serve
with npm
mkdir my-ginger-book
cd my-ginger-book
npm init --yes
npm install @ginger-society/ginger-book react react-dom
mkdir src
echo "export const World = () => <p>Hey</p>;" > src/hello.stories.tsx
npx ginger-book serve
Controls
Stories can be parametrized. You can define the props that your component expects and then update them through the UI without changing the code or creating multiple additional stories with the same component. The example below covers all basic args
and argTypes
that GingerBook supports:
import type { Story } from "@ginger-society/ginger-book";
export const Controls: Story<{
label: string;
disabled: boolean;
count: number;
range: number;
colors: string[];
variant: string;
size: string;
airports: string[];
}> = ({ count, range, disabled, label, colors, variant, size, airports }) => (
<>
<p>Count: {count}</p>
<p>Range: {range}</p>
<p>Disabled: {disabled ? "yes" : "no"}</p>
<p>Label: {label}</p>
<p>Colors: {colors.join(",")}</p>
<p>Variant: {variant}</p>
<p>Size: {size}</p>
<p>Airports: {airports.join(",")}</p>
</>
);
Controls.args = {
label: "Hello world",
disabled: false,
count: 2,
colors: ["Red", "Blue"],
};
Controls.argTypes = {
variant: {
options: ["primary", "secondary"],
control: { type: "radio" }, // or type: inline-radio
defaultValue: "primary",
},
size: {
options: ["small", "medium", "big", "huuuuge"],
control: { type: "select" }, // or type: multi-select
},
airports: {
name: "International Airports", // custom label
options: ["sfo", "slc", "prg"],
// custom option labels
labels: {
sfo: "San Francisco",
slc: "Salt Lake City",
prg: "Prague",
},
control: { type: "check" }, // or type: inline-check
},
range: {
control: { type: "range", min: 1, max: 10, step: 0.5 },
defaultValue: 5,
},
};
GingerBook detects args
/ argTypes
and provides the Control UI so you can update the component without touching the code. You can define primitive types through args
and enums through argTypes
:
You can also create multiple stories by assigning different default args
/ argTypes
to the same component:
import type { Story } from "@ginger-society/ginger-book";
const Card: Story<{
label: string;
}> = ({ label }) => <p>Label: {label}</p>;
export const CardHello = Card.bind({});
CardHello.args = {
label: "Hello",
};
export const CardWorld = Card.bind({});
CardWorld.args = {
label: "World",
};
File level controls
Both args
and argTypes
can be also set for all stories in a single file:
export default {
args: {
label: "Hello world",
},
argTypes: {
cities: {
options: ["Prague", "NYC"],
control: { type: "check" },
},
},
};
Per-story args
/ argTypes
will override the file level ones.
Global level controls
You can also define global args
and argTypes
in .ginger-book/components.tsx
. These will be applied to all stories in the project:
export const args = {
label: "Hello world",
};
export const argTypes = {
cities: {
options: ["Prague", "NYC"],
control: { type: "check" },
},
};
Per-story controls > file level controls > global level controls.