Off the Bit
Tools: Storybook
Category: Design and media
Site: storybook.js.org
Storybook
Builds and documents UI components in isolation, which turned the component library into a real artefact.
Made the component the unit of front-end work.
What it is sold for
Developing and reviewing components outside the app.
Named alongside
These entries mention each other by name. It is a weak relationship and it is the only one the catalogue can show without inventing something.
Named by:
- Visual, interaction and accessibility review for component libraries, built by the Storybook maintainers.
- Visual regression testing for React Native, comparing screenshots on iOS and Android simulators.
Same shelf
The rest of design and media, alphabetically. Sharing a category is a filing decision, not a relationship.
- Generates PDFs and images from reusable templates over an API, so document rendering is not something you build.
- File storage with image and video processing on the delivery path, so transforms are URL parameters.
- A React component system with accessibility and theming built into the primitives rather than layered on.
- Media storage with transformation and delivery, the long-standing default for images that must exist at twelve sizes.
- Real-time audio and video as a toolkit, so live features do not require running media infrastructure.
- The design tool that moved interface work into the browser and made multiplayer editing the default.
- Handles the customer data import: extraction, mapping, validation and the mess in the spreadsheet they sent.
- Real-time image and video optimisation with a digital asset manager attached.
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