storybook-router

A Storybook decorator that allows you to use your routing-aware components.

Install

npm install --save-dev storybook-vue-router

The StoryRouter decorator

The decorator is actually a function which wraps the VueRouter instance. It accepts two optional arguments that you can use if you want to build a prototype of your navigation within storybook or if you need more control over the router itself.

In its default behavior the decorator just log every route action perfomed using the storybook action logger. If you are fine with the default arguments you can add globally the StoryRouter decorator, however if you need to specify some of the arguments you have to use the decorator for every story that needs it.

Usage

Suppose you have a navigation bar that uses the vue-router router-link:

const NavBar = {
  template: `
    <div>
      <router-link to="/">Home</router-link>
      <router-link to="/about">About</router-link>
    </div>`
};

you can define a story for your component just like this:

import { storiesOf } from '@storybook/vue';
import StoryRouter from 'storybook-vue-router';

storiesOf('NavBar', module)
  .addDecorator(StoryRouter())
  .add('default', () => NavBar);

or if you want to include in your story the target components (with a local navigation) you can write:

import { storiesOf } from '@storybook/vue';
import StoryRouter from 'storybook-vue-router';

const Home = {
  template: '<div>Home</div>'
};

const About = {
  template: '<div>About</div>'
};

storiesOf('Navigation', module)
  .addDecorator(StoryRouter({}, {
    routes: [
      { path: '/', component: Home },
      { path: '/about', component: About }
    ]}))
  .add('local', () => ({
    components: { NavBar },
    template: `
      <div>
        <nav-bar/>
        <router-view/>
      </div>`
  }));

StoryRouter arguments

The first argument is an object that you can use to extend the default behavior. Every time that a key in the object matches with a path Storybook will call the callback specified for the corresponding value with the destination path as argument. This way you can for example link stories together using the links addons with the linkTo function. The link keys need to be equal (===) to the fullPath of the destination route.

The second argument is another object you can use to specify one of the vue-router constructor options plus a couple of specific StoryRouter options:

• initialEntry, the starting location [default '/']
• globalBeforeEach, a function which will be installed as a global beforeEach guard

Advanced usage and examples

You can find more examples in the provided stories. You can run them cloning this repository and executing (supposing you have installed globally lerna):

yarn install && yarn bootstrap
yarn storybook-vue-examples

Limitations

As the wrapped VueRouter uses the browser history API which is quite limited (for example, it is not possible to reset the history stack) the same limitations apply to the StoryRouter decorator.