Storybook is a stable and competent component workshop. I have and will likely continue to use storybook through work on the daily. But even with the latest v9.x the storybook experience for svelte and sveltekit is still secondary compared to the React experience. Is it so hard to ask for intellisense in CSF files?
What I've recently realized is that svelte is no longer a small player. Professional teams all around the world are using svelte and sveltekit. Those teams are in need of a component workshop that works with and within their existing tools.
A key aspect I wanted when creating bookemoji is that I wanted it to be easily customizable, modular, yada-yada-all-the-software-engineer-things. But I wanted it unobtrusively a library that you use within your own sveltekit application—not a separate application. That's the only way I could see the tooling keep its power.
| Feature | bookemoji | storybook |
|---|---|---|
| Stories, Controls, Variants | ✅ | ✅ |
| Works within SvelteKit | ✅ | ❌ |
| permalinkable stories | ✅ | ✅ |
| iframed | ❌ | ✅ |
| CSF | ❌ | ✅ |
| Built with React | ❌ | ✅ |
| Built with Svelte | ✅ | ❌ |
| Works with React | ❌ | ✅ |