What to do with storybook?

[mhsdesign]

A: Totally abandon and remove it
B: start reusing it again (partly) is totally broken for now because of #3200
C: using alternatives #3268 (comment)

[mhsdesign]

@JamesAlias

storybook relies on own webpack config -> currently broken. Does anyone use storybook right now?

@markusguenther

Not sure, but the storybook is outdated, and I bet that no one uses that anymore. So maybe we can save some time and disable or remove the storybook. I did not use it for years now, can remember the sprint 2018 in Vienna... at some point it broke.

[grebaldi]

As of today, there are plenty of alternatives for storybook:

• Storybook itself: https://storybook.js.org/
• React Styleguidist: https://react-styleguidist.js.org/
• Catalog: https://www.catalog.style/
• React Cosmos: https://reactcosmos.org/
• Docz: https://www.docz.site/

I would favor a solution that allows us to do reliable visual regression tests. The best (FOSS-)tool I know to achieve the latter is BackstopJS (https://github.com/garris/BackstopJS). It is not coupled to any particular styleguide, so anything lightweight (and preferably low on dependencies) will be good.

However, as a first step I would argue in favor of A, because our storybook integration has actually no benefit atm.

As a side note:
Likewise, I'd like to suggest to drop @friendsofreactjs/react-css-themr. AFAIR there were plans for having something akin to a "light theme" for the UI, but neither were those plans ever realized nor does @friendsofreactjs/react-css-themr seem to actually enable this (though, I'm not entirely sure about that).

[mhsdesign]

The only current upside i see in story book is to have a guideline how to composit more complex components (like a dragable tree item) - but then again even these stories are mostly outdated and always reachable via gits history

[mhsdesign]

With my latest cleanups i completely removed any left over storybook dependencies and configs.
The only that is left are the stories, as they can be helpfull to know how to use a component (fx. if the tests dont test it ... (especially more complex things like the node tree))

[grebaldi]

Can this be closed, @mhsdesign?

[mhsdesign]

As long as we still have the .story.js lying around lets keep it open