I kind of agree because I had some pain points with storybook on a large legacy project with a lot of quirks. But on a fresh project where you don’t try to do fancy things, it’s perfect.
Actually storybook has become sort of a litmus test: If you need to hack storybook to death to make your fancy thing work, then it means that you will have trouble with other tools anyway (Jest, Cypress, some CI tool or some Browsers), so maybe reconsider it first.
So your mileage will vary. But on fresh modern project my advice would be: go for it (and use Chromatic as well in your CI, it is super cool!). If you have to use fancy stuff that make storybook too complicated then drop it.
It’s easy to drop, but not easy to insert in an existing project. But for me the storybook / chromatic Combo has a 10x ROI on a project in 2021.
Actually storybook has become sort of a litmus test: If you need to hack storybook to death to make your fancy thing work, then it means that you will have trouble with other tools anyway (Jest, Cypress, some CI tool or some Browsers), so maybe reconsider it first.
So your mileage will vary. But on fresh modern project my advice would be: go for it (and use Chromatic as well in your CI, it is super cool!). If you have to use fancy stuff that make storybook too complicated then drop it.
It’s easy to drop, but not easy to insert in an existing project. But for me the storybook / chromatic Combo has a 10x ROI on a project in 2021.