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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

Building static Storybook apps


If you're building component library that you either want to distribute as an open source project or as something that's shared with various teams within your organization, you can use Storybook as the tool that documents how to work with your components. That said, you might not want to have a Storybook server running or you might just want to host the Storybook documentation.

In either scenario, you need a static build of the stories that you've written for your component library. Storybook provides you with this utility when you run the getstorybook command.

Let's continue with the example from the preceding section where you used Storybook to document the usage scenarios of your two components. To build your static Storybook documentation, all you have to do is run the following command from within your project directory:

npm run build-storybook

You should see output that looks like the following:

info @storybook/react v3.3.13info info => Loading custom addons...