The missing devolpment workflow: Snapshot-driven development

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The developer workflow is missing something.

Having built design systems in Storybook, I found glimpses of it.

There was one project that solidified the need for me. It was a simple UI that that displayed a share-url based your enabled features.

The challenge was that this UI sat at the top of a mountain of tech debt and institutional unrest. It got data from:

Ultimately, these can all be transformed into props, if you isolate just the view layer. And we did. that part was simple.

The Rest API could be mocked. Also, not a problem.

But the framework supplied data was weird.

Component-driven-development doesn’t scale to complex full-stack componentry.

Separate Story from the Book

Leverage the actual framework for rendering.

Storybook is just an incidental compilation of those stories.

You get Stories as a result of any preview deploy pipeline.