Improve Story Index

[shilman]

Issue by philcockfield
Thursday Nov 24, 2016 at 19:53 GMT
Originally opened as storybook-eol/storybook-ui#63

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I'd like to write a better index panel that can better handle larger projects and libraries, and provide more sophisticated organisation options for stories.

Is there a pluggable way to do this. Can I write this as an external module, and have it dropped in using a known set of properties that get passed to it. (I'd like to write it in Typescript). Or do I have to hack it out within this repo?

Please let me know options - and how pluggable UI want to make the Storybook? Thanks.

[shilman]

Comment by arunoda
Friday Nov 25, 2016 at 02:17 GMT

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Currently, it's not pluggable and with current state, I think it's hard to do so. Since it's a core component of storybook.

Anyway, I think there's a huge opportunity for an improvement. So, I'd like to see it lands to the core.
If that's kind a impossible, let's try to make it pluggable.

[shilman]

Comment by philcockfield
Friday Nov 25, 2016 at 05:17 GMT

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OK, I think I'll draw up some designs. I have some ideas that allows for clean, nested organization of stories that would not change the storiesOf data structure at all.

[shilman]

Comment by arunoda
Friday Nov 25, 2016 at 05:24 GMT

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Awesome.

[shilman]

Comment by benediktvaldez
Sunday Apr 02, 2017 at 01:00 GMT

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@philcockfield did you ever get any further with those designs? really excited to see something like this happen

[shilman]

Comment by philcockfield
Monday Apr 03, 2017 at 20:05 GMT

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Hey @benediktvaldez - I haven't pushed that forward yet. What's the future of Storybook looking like (before I invest time)?

[shilman]

Comment by ndelangen
Monday Apr 03, 2017 at 22:05 GMT

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Hey Phil,
I think storybooks future looks pretty bright, recently quite a few people stepped forward to maintain the packages, and we're making a lot of progress getting ready for the 3.0.0 release.
It will contain an upgrade to webpack 2, which will help a lot of people out.

We'd love to hear your ideas for designs, make people even happier?

[shilman]

Comment by philcockfield
Tuesday Apr 04, 2017 at 20:03 GMT

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OK, cool - that's encouraging. I'll look to put something together ASAP.

[ndelangen]

Hey @philcockfield if you need any help or want to brainstorm your idea's you're very welcome on our slack!

[philcockfield]

@ndelangen - sweet. I've just joined the Slack channel. Apologies haven't had a chance to look at this yet, but am finding some time now. Before I dive in, has there been any changes to the index for Version 3? Or is this still in the same place?

Thanks

[usulpro]

Hi @philcockfield!
There're PRs related to the stories panel: #981 #908
and some discussions about API improvement: #993 #151

If this work is going to include nesting/hierarchy of stories, can we discuss it (maybe on our slack)?