--- title: Best Storybook posts of 2024 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Storybook posts of 2024, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/tags/storybook/best-of/2024 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/tags/storybook/best-of/2024 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Storybook posts of 2024 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Storybook posts of 2024, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Storybook — 2024 1. 1 [](/posts/practical-guide-to-creating-a-design-system-pbnxasdoh "Practical Guide to Creating a Design System") Article DEV · 2y Practical Guide to Creating a Design System Creating a design system involves selecting a suitable UI framework, defining both light and dark themes, and organizing the system into a reusable package. Using tools like Storybook for documentation and ensuring regression UI testing minimizes unexpected issues. Avoid custom CSS and components to reduce complexity and maintenance costs. While initially labor-intensive, this approach significantly reduces the marginal cost of developing new front-end pages. 250 4 2. 2 [](/posts/storybook-8-3-wluvh4hia "Storybook 8.3") Article Storybook · 2y Storybook 8.3 Storybook 8.3 introduces enhanced component testing through first-class Vitest integration, enabling stories to run as tests with unmatched speed. This version also offers a Next.js-Vite framework for improved developer experience (DX), significant reductions in bundle size, and the introduction of story globals for better UI state control. Numerous other improvements include better support for Angular+Vite, Vue memory management, and more. 70 2 3. 3 [](/posts/storybook-8-7qspgcybp "Storybook 8") Article Storybook · 3y Storybook 8 Storybook 8 brings major improvements to testing, performance, and compatibility. It introduces the Visual Tests addon for catching UI bugs, experimental support for React Server Components, and upgrades to React and Vue control autogeneration. 54 6 4. 4 [](/posts/storybook-8-2-j0smnzidj "Storybook 8.2") Article Storybook · 2y Storybook 8.2 Storybook 8.2 introduces several enhancements aimed at improving component testing, including new test hooks, portable stories for React, Vue 3, and Svelte, and consolidated dependency management. The release also features a streamlined onboarding process, an improved website with better documentation, and numerous other improvements and bug fixes. Developers can try the new version by initializing a new project or upgrading an existing one using Storybook's CLI. 48 1 5. 5 [](/posts/storybook-8-4-rfrbyidfs "Storybook 8.4") Article Storybook · 2y Storybook 8.4 Storybook 8.4 introduces significant improvements for developers working with UI components. Key features include one-click component testing in the browser through Vitest, a bundle size reduction of over 50%, and enhanced support for Svelte 5 and React Native. Additionally, the update includes a tagging and filtering mechanism for stories, numerous bug fixes, and other improvements. 38 1 6. 6 [](/posts/storybook-8-beta-bcwswhnvi "Storybook 8 Beta") Article Storybook · 3y Storybook 8 Beta Storybook 8 beta introduces major performance improvements, improved mobile support, automatic visual tests, improved test utilities, support for React Server Components, removal of React dependency, and updates to the ecosystem. Upgrade to Storybook 8 beta today using the provided command. 36 1 7. 7 [](/posts/component-testing-in-storybook-wfztlsiff "Component testing in Storybook") Article Storybook · 2y Component testing in Storybook Web UI technology has evolved significantly, but maintaining production UIs remains challenging. Storybook advocates for component testing as a balance between end-to-end and unit tests, offering high fidelity and reliability. Component tests render a UI component in the browser, providing the speed and compactness of unit tests while simulating user interactions like end-to-end tests. This approach ensures thorough UI coverage and complements traditional testing methods. Storybook 8.2 supports component testing, and upcoming improvements will enhance its capabilities further. 30 8. 8 [](/posts/storybook-8-1-yxjxgigdt "Storybook 8.1") Article Storybook · 2y Storybook 8.1 Storybook 8.1 introduces new features, including story auto-generation, type-safe module mocking, unit testing for React Server Components, portable stories for Playwright Component Tests, and hundreds of other improvements. 28 1 9. 9 [](/posts/how-to-improve-storybook-performance-in-large-projects-8w4pltem5 "How to Improve Storybook Performance in Large Projects") Article ITNEXT · 2y How to Improve Storybook Performance in Large Projects Optimizing Storybook for large projects involves several key strategies. By switching to the SWC compiler, creating a development mode that pares down addons and documentation, enabling Webpack’s lazyCompilation and filesystem cache features, using Vite as a builder, and loading specific stories only, you can significantly reduce build and reload times. These enhancements improve overall development efficiency. 27 10. 10 [](/posts/this-week-in-react-177-skia-pigment-mist-storybook-shadcn-ui-hydration-diff-geiger-mdxts-r-8l1kdvrvh "This Week In React #177: Skia, Pigment, Mist, Storybook, shadcn/ui, Hydration Diff, Geiger, MDXTS, Remotion, WinterJS, Astro, Rolldown, Tailwind, TypeScript, Biome, INP...") Article This Week In React · 3y This Week In React #177: Skia, Pigment, Mist, Storybook, shadcn/ui, Hydration Diff, Geiger, MDXTS, Remotion, WinterJS, Astro, Rolldown, Tailwind, TypeScript, Biome, INP... This post discusses the release of React Native Skia 1.0 and highlights other interesting releases such as Pigment, Storybook, Tailwind, Rolldown, Geist, Mist, MDXTS. It also mentions the React Core PR about adding Diffs to Hydration Warnings. 22 1 11. 11 [](/posts/this-week-in-react-168-tanstack-usememo-rsc-preload-flushsync-shadcn-ui-mdx-storybook-styl-f8mancvse "This Week In React #168: TanStack, useMemo, RSC, preload, flushSync, shadcn-ui, MDX, Storybook, StyleX, TWC, Tokenami, Catalyst, rsc-cache, WishList, VisionOS, Hermes, release-profiler...") Article This Week In React · 3y This Week In React #168: TanStack, useMemo, RSC, preload, flushSync, shadcn-ui, MDX, Storybook, StyleX, TWC, Tokenami, Catalyst, rsc-cache, WishList, VisionOS, Hermes, release-profiler... The TanStack Router was launched as stable 1.0 with type-safety and caching features. 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