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React 16 Tooling

By : Adam Boduch, Christopher Pitt
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React 16 Tooling

By: Adam Boduch, Christopher Pitt

Overview of this book

React 16 Tooling covers the most important tools, utilities, and libraries that every React developer needs to know — in detail. As React has grown, the amazing toolset around it has also grown, adding features and enhancing the development workflow. Each of these essential tools is presented in a practical manner and in a logical order mirroring the development workflow. These tools will make your development life simpler and happier, enabling you to create better and more performant apps. Adam starts with a hand-picked selection of the best tools for the React 16 ecosystem. For starters, there’s the create-react-app utility that’s officially supported by the React team. Not only does this tool bootstrap your React project for you, it also provides a consistent and stable framework to build upon. The premise is that when you don’t have to think about meta development work, more focus goes into the product itself. Other React tools follow this same approach to automating and improving your development life. Jest makes unit testing quicker. Flow makes catching errors easier. Docker containers make deployment in a stack simpler. Storybook makes developing components straightforward. ESLint makes writing standardized code faster. The React DevTools plugin makes debugging a cinch. React 16 Tooling clears away the barriers so you can focus on developing the good parts. In this book, we’ll look at each of these powerful tools in detail, showing you how to build the perfect React ecosystem to develop your apps within.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
2
Efficiently Bootstrapping React Applications with Create React App
Index

Installing and configuring Storybook


The first step to using Storybook is installing the global command-line tool. It's installed as a global tool because it can be used with many projects at the same time, and it can be used to bootstrap new projects. Let's start with this first step:

npm install @storybook/cli -g

Once this installation is done, you have the command-line tool that's used to modify your package.json dependencies and generate boilerplate Storybook files. Let's assume that you've used create-react-app to create a new application. Change into your application directory, and use the Storybook command-line tool to add Storybook to your current project:

getstorybook

The getstorybook command does a number of things for you when you run it. Here's what you should see as the output when you run this command:

getstorybook - the simplest way to add a storybook to your project. 
Detecting project type.
Adding storybook support to your "Create React App" based project.
Preparing to install...