⛔ [DEPRECATED] This addon is no longer maintained and is now considered deprecated in favour of Storybook's native nesting and component hierarchy. We recommend Storybook version 6 be used instead.

React Storybook Chapters Addon

React Storybook Chapters addon allows showcasing of multiple components within a story by breaking it down into smaller categories (chapters) and subcategories (sections) for more organizational goodness.

Using the addon, a story can consist of multiple chapters and a chapter consists of multiple sections. Each section can render a block of code, which typically used to showcase one component or a particular state of a component.

Chapters can be used to group related components together, or show varying states of a component. Each chapter comes with a Chapter Title, Chapter Subtitle, Chapter Info and a list of Sections. Simply omit any of them to hide them from rendering.

Each section comes with a Section Title, Section Subtitle, Section Info.

This addon was modified from react-storybook-addon-info and uses some of the component code from there.

Usage

Install the following npm module:

npm install --save-dev react-storybook-addon-chapters

Then set the addon in the place you configure storybook like this:

import React from 'react';
import { configure, setAddon } from '@storybook/react';
import chaptersAddon from 'react-storybook-addon-chapters';

setAddon(chaptersAddon);

configure(function () {
  ...
}, module);

To turn off the default styles add:

setDefaults({ sectionOptions: { useTheme: false } });

All rendered components have a specified class. With the 'useTheme' set to false you should have no problem styling your chapters.

Then create your stories with the .addWithChapters API.

import React from 'react';
import Button from './Button';
import { storiesOf } from '@storybook/react';

storiesOf('Addon Chapters')
  .addWithChapters(
    'Story With Chapters',
    {
      subtitle: <Optional story subtitle>,
      info: <Optional story info>,
      chapters: [
        // List of chapters. Refer to Configuration Format section.
        {
          title: <Optional chapter title>,
          subtitle: <Optional chapter subtitle>,
          info: <Optional chapter info>,
          sections: [
            // List of sections.
            {
              title: <Optional section title>,
              subtitle: <Optional section subtitle>,
              info: <Optional section info>,
              sectionFn: () => (<Button label="My Button" onClick={() => { alert('Hello World!'); }}/>),
              options: {
                showSource: true,
                allowSourceToggling: true,
                showPropTables: true,
                allowPropTablesToggling: true,
              },
            },
            ...
          ],
        },
        ...
      ]
    }
  );

Have a look at this example stories to learn more about the addWithChapters API.

Global options

To configure default options for all chapter sections (section.options), use setDefaults in .storybook/config.js .

import React from 'react';
import { configure, setAddon } from '@storybook/react';
import chaptersAddon, { setDefaults } from 'react-storybook-addon-chapters';

// optionally override defaults
setDefaults({
  sectionOptions: {
    showSource: true,
    allowSourceToggling: true,
    showPropTables: false,
    allowPropTablesToggling: true,
    decorator: story => (<div>{story()}</div>),
  }
});
setAddon(chaptersAddon);

configure(function () {
  ...
}, module);

Configuration Format

Story

Key	Description	Type	Default
subtitle	Story subtitle	String	-
info	Additional information for the story	String (markdown)	-
chapters	An array of Chapter objects	Array	-

Chapter

Key	Description	Type	Default
title	Chapter title	String	-
subtitle	Chapter subtitle	String	-
info	Additional information for the chapter	String (markdown)	-
sections	An array of Section objects	Array	-

Section

Key	Description	Type	Default
title	Section title	String	-
subtitle	Section subtitle	String	-
info	Additional information for the section	String (markdown)	-
sectionFn	A function that returns a React component to be displayed	Function	-
options	A configuration object for this section. Refer to the next few rows for the keys	Object	-
options.showSource	Display the component's source	Boolean	True
options.allowSourceToggling	Allow showing/hiding of the component's source	Boolean	True
options.showPropTables	Display the component's propTypes	Boolean	False
options.allowPropTablesToggling	Allow showing/hiding of the component's propTypes	Boolean	True
options.decorator	An optional decorator function that will be used for rendering the component in section	Function	-

The FAQ

Components lose their names on static build

Component names also get minified with other javascript code when building for production. When creating components, set the displayName static property to show the correct component name on static builds.