feat: ✨ add storybook to cli

[lloydrichards]

Goals/Scope

This is extension of PR #11 regarding adding stories for storybook through the CLI. A lot of work was already done by XavierGeerinck to get this going, but the PR seems to have been lost despite renewed interest and push to get this feature added. I've created this renewed PR with the hope of getting some attention and momentum in adding this to the CLI.

For the sake of narrowing the scope of this PR, i've removed the typography component so we can focus on just storybook.

Description

There are two main areas that have been changed in this PR, first is the addition of a storybook folder in the /registry which contain *.story.tsx files for most of the component (some are still missing). Second is I've added an additional option to the component.tsx which should allow for the stories to be loaded in through the CLI when adding a component (still need to test)

Component Stories

The stories are added to the registry folder in the *.story.tsx files. While most of the components follow the examples in the shadcn/ui docs, some of the examples needed to be simplified or broken up into multiple stories to make them more readable. Below you will find a list of the components and their stories.

Expand Component Table

Checkbox	Name	Link to Storybook
✅	accordion	Storybook
✅	alert	Storybook
✅	alert-dialog	Storybook
✅	aspect-ratio	Storybook
✅	avatar	Storybook
✅	badge	Storybook
✅	breadcrumb	Storybook
✅	button	Storybook
✅	calendar	Storybook
✅	card	Storybook
✅	carousel	Storybook
✅	checkbox	Storybook
✅	collapsible	Storybook
✅	command	Storybook
✅	context-menu	Storybook
✅	dialog	Storybook
✅	drawer	Storybook
✅	dropdown-menu	Storybook
✅	form	Storybook
✅	hover-card	Storybook
✅	input-otp	Storybook
✅	input	Storybook
✅	label	Storybook
✅	menubar	Storybook
✅	navigation-menu	Storybook
✅	pagination	Storybook
✅	popover	Storybook
✅	progress	Storybook
✅	radio-group	Storybook
✅	resizable	Storybook
✅	scroll-area	Storybook
✅	select	Storybook
✅	separator	Storybook
✅	sheet	Storybook
✅	skeleton	Storybook
✅	slider	Storybook
✅	sonner	Storybook
✅	switch	Storybook
✅	table	Storybook
✅	tabs	Storybook
✅	textarea	Storybook
✅	toast	Storybook
✅	toggle	Storybook
✅	toggle-group	Storybook
✅	tooltip	Storybook

Bonus	Name	Link to Stories
⭐️	color - functional	Storybook
⭐️	color - tailwind	Storybook
⭐️	radius	Storybook
⭐️	shadow	Storybook
⭐️	padding	Storybook
⭐️	typography - font family	Storybook
⭐️	typography - font size	Storybook
⭐️	typography - font weight	Storybook

Comments

I'm very happy for support with getting this PR through so if anyone would like to review the stories, or add new ones, or help with upgrading the CLI, please join the conversation in the comments 🙇

if you would like to add a missing story, you can create the .story.tsx file in the /apps/www/registry/stories/ directory and add the file to the apps/www/public/registry/index.json for the correct component.

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• cc: @XavierGeerinck @integrayshaun

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[csartor]

I believe!!!

[Jared-Dahlke]

@lloydrichards did you have any trouble with the code blocks showing corrupted code? Happens to me with <Source/> and just the auto docs

[lloydrichards]

@lloydrichards did you have any trouble with the code blocks showing corrupted code? Happens to me with <Source/> and just the auto docs

I had a look and things loook correct in the code block for my dev env, but i've gone and upgraded storybook to v7.4.5 incase there was some bug in there somewhere. are you using pnpm storybook to spin it up?

[Jared-Dahlke]

@lloydrichards did you have any trouble with the code blocks showing corrupted code? Happens to me with <Source/> and just the auto docs

I had a look and things loook correct in the code block for my dev env, but i've gone and upgraded storybook to v7.4.5 incase there was some bug in there somewhere. are you using pnpm storybook to spin it up?

i implemented a lot of stories myself before i found your repo. Now i cloned yours and am running it and got this error:

just fyi. Seems like awesome work though. I've also built tests for about half of the components so far. i will have to write tests for all of them soon

[lloydrichards]

i implemented a lot of stories myself before i found your repo. Now i cloned yours and am running it and got this error:

I think the issue is using npm vs pnpm. i usually use yarn and was running into issues with yarn install, but noticed the pnpm.lock so tried using pnpm install instead.

[Jared-Dahlke]

ahhh nevermind, i was on main, i needed to git checkout feat/storybook-cli

now it works

[Jared-Dahlke]

@lloydrichards what do you think is the easiest way to add the import code block on each story at the top. like this:

import { Button } from 'mylibrary/button'`

Right now i'm having to make a .mdx for each story and put that at the top manually like this:

[lloydrichards]

The way its done through the CLI, is that within the /registry/ui components they reference using aliases:

import { buttonVariants } from "@/registry/default/ui/button"

and then later in the CLI process there is a pretty cool transform-import function (/packages/cli/src/utils/transformers/transform-import.ts) that swaps out the @/registry/default with the config from component.ts

This should also apply to the .stories.tsx files so if you use the @/registry/default alias for importing then the CLI process will fix it to your mylibrary/

[ShaunEvening]

@lloydrichards This looks great!!! 😁 is there anything that you need from me or the Storybook team to wrap up?

[lloydrichards]

is there anything that you need from me or the Storybook team to wrap up?

One piece of the puzzle that is still missing is bring able to infer the arg types better for the components. Normally in a story the Meta does a pretty good job building out the controls, but i've noticed with the Radix components that this only works if you specify a prop in the Story.args. Do you know if there is a better way to infer the argTypes, otherwise its a manual process of picking which props are most useful for each story

[lloydrichards]

@shadcn Would it be possible to have a look and see if the changes im proposing here to the CLI and the inclusion o Storybook is inline with you roadmap with shadch/ui? So far I've achieved the core of what i want to do with this PR:

• write storybook files for all ui components
• integrate the stories into the CLI so they can be loaded when added
• keep the PR up to date with the latest main and storybook versions

next steps for me really depend if there is any pushback from your side or any requests for changes. just let me know or if you don't have time, maybe ping another maintainer so I can try test the CLI? 🙏

[kylegach]

One piece of the puzzle that is still missing is bring able to infer the arg types better for the components. Normally in a story the Meta does a pretty good job building out the controls, but i've noticed with the Radix components that this only works if you specify a prop in the Story.args. Do you know if there is a better way to infer the argTypes, otherwise its a manual process of picking which props are most useful for each story

@lloydrichards —

This is most likely because Storybook, by default, filters out all props sourced from node_modules (otherwise, you end up with every prop from, say, @types/react, which includes all valid HTML attributes).

Try adjusting the prop filter like so:

// .storybook/main.ts
import type { StorybookConfig } from "@storybook/nextjs"

const config: StorybookConfig = {
  // ...
  typescript: {
    reactDocgen: 'react-docgen-typescript',
    reactDocgenTypescriptOptions: {
      shouldExtractLiteralValuesFromEnum: true,
      // 👇 Adjusted prop filter
      propFilter: (prop) =>
        prop.parent ? !/node_modules\/(?!@radix-ui)/.test(prop.parent.fileName) : true,
    },
  },
}
export default config

[IndyVC]

@shadcn any update when we can see this coming? :)

[amirakbulut]

@shadcn Looking forward to your approvement

[panzacoder]

#1561 (comment)

If anyone in 2024 is here looking for answers about pulling these components into a SB, this was the answer for me, with some revisions:

// in .storybook/main.ts config
typescript: {
    reactDocgen: 'react-docgen-typescript',
    reactDocgenTypescriptOptions: {
      shouldExtractLiteralValuesFromEnum: true,
      shouldExtractValuesFromUnion: true,
      shouldIncludePropTagMap: true,
      shouldRemoveUndefinedFromOptional: true,

      // 👇 Adjusted prop filter
      propFilter: (prop) =>
        prop.parent
          ? !/node_modules\/(?!@radix-ui)/.test(prop.parent.fileName)
          : true
    }
  },

[lloydrichards]

@shadcn I've refactored the registry changes I made previously to match the new 2.0 CLI (which has made it much easier to extend. 😘👌) mostly through extending the registry item type with registry:story which can be used to better select and parse the storybook files.

Have tested building the registry but not included the built files as it makes reviewing the PR quite overwhelming, but feel free to open the changes and test out the output yourself (and before committing the new output for testing I assume).

Am still motivated to get this PR merged so let me know if there is anything you need from my end or if you have some changes you would like me to tackle 🙏

[0pilatos0]

Great effort!

Would love to see this changed merged, as adding the storybooks by hand takes up some valuable time.

[linkb15]

support for more deep object in colors

colors: {
  primary: {
    someKey: {
      DEFAULT: "***",
      ...
      500: "***"
    }
  ...
  }
...
}

[linkb15]

this does not cover when user update the config to be more have more object in their color systems.

Maybe we can do flatten the object here instead?

[linkb15]

https://github.com/hughsk/flat/blob/master/index.js

can use util function from "flat" to flatten the object.

[linkb15]

Suggested change

	colors: typeof colors === "string" ? { [name]: colors } : colors,
	colors: typeof colors === "string" ? { [name]: colors } : flatten(colors),

[VoidHum]

@shadcn
Any idea when this will be implemented ?

[andreasss55]

this should be a high priority than any other task

[Saravanan90]

+1 eagerly awaiting for storybook support