In this tutorial, we will explore how to customize the user interface (UI) of your JavaScript Storybook. Storybook is a popular development environment for building UI components in isolation. By default, Storybook provides a clean and minimalistic UI, but you may want to customize it to match your project’s branding or to enhance the user experience.

Changing the Logo

The first customization we’ll look at is changing the default Storybook logo. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Locate the public folder in your project’s root directory.
2. Inside the public folder, you will find a favicon.ico file. Replace this file with your custom logo file, making sure to use the .ico format.

Once you have replaced the favicon.ico file, refresh your Storybook UI, and you should see your custom logo displayed.

Customizing the Theme

If you want to go beyond just changing the logo and modify the entire theme of your Storybook UI, you can leverage the @storybook/theming package. This package provides a set of utilities and components to customize the UI theme.

To get started, install the @storybook/theming package by running the following command:

npm install --save @storybook/theming

Once the package is installed, you can create a custom theme file. Here’s an example of how to create a custom theme:

// customTheme.js
import { create } from '@storybook/theming';

export default create({
  base: 'light',

  brandTitle: 'My Custom Storybook',
  brandUrl: 'https://example.com',
  brandImage: 'path/to/custom_logo.png',
});

In this example, we create a custom theme with a light base and set the brand title, URL, and image. Modify these values according to your project’s requirements.

Next, import the custom theme in your Storybook configuration file (.storybook/preview.js) with the following code:

import { addParameters } from '@storybook/react';
import customTheme from './customTheme';

addParameters({
  options: {
    theme: customTheme,
  },
});

Save the file, and when you refresh your Storybook UI, you will see the changes reflected in the theme.

Conclusion

Customizing the Storybook UI allows you to personalize the development environment to match your project’s branding or improve the overall user experience. By changing the logo and customizing the theme, you can create a UI that aligns with your project’s design and aesthetics.

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