Migrating from Styleguidist to Storybook
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Kedar Vaidya and Benson Pan, Software Engineers
- Jul 6, 2022
One of the core tenets for our infrastructure and engineering effectiveness teams at Yelp is ensuring we have a best-in-class developer experience. Our React monorepo codebase has steadily grown as developers create new React components, but our existing React Styleguidist (Styleguidist, for short) development environment has failed to scale in parallel. By transitioning from Styleguidist to Storybook, we were able to offer a faster and more user-friendly development environment for React components along with better alignment to developer and designer workflows. In this post we’ll take a deep dive into how and why we migrated to Storybook. Background Status Quo...