# React Styleguidist Documentation
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**Isolated React component development environment with a living style guide**

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React Styleguidist is a component development environment with hot reloaded dev server and a living style guide that you can share with your team. It lists component `propTypes` and shows live, editable usage examples based on Markdown files. Check out [**the demo style guide**](https://react-styleguidist.js.org/examples/basic/).

![React Styleguidist in action](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1703219/74945569-51c6ad00-543b-11ea-8351-f4d86860893a.gif)

[![Washing your code. A book on clean code for frontend developers](https://sapegin.me/images/washing-code-github.jpg)](https://sapegin.me/book/)

## Usage

- **[Getting Started](https://react-styleguidist.js.org/docs/getting-started): install and run Styleguidist**
- [Documenting components](https://react-styleguidist.js.org/docs/documenting): how to write documentation
- [Locating components](https://react-styleguidist.js.org/docs/components): point Styleguidist to your React components
- [Configuring webpack](https://react-styleguidist.js.org/docs/webpack): tell Styleguidist how to load your code
- [Cookbook](https://react-styleguidist.js.org/docs/cookbook): how to solve common tasks with Styleguidist

## Advanced documentation

- [Configuration](https://react-styleguidist.js.org/docs/configuration)
- [CLI commands and options](https://react-styleguidist.js.org/docs/cli)
- [Node.js API](https://react-styleguidist.js.org/docs/api)

## Examples

- [Basic style guide](https://react-styleguidist.js.org/examples/basic/), [source](./examples/basic)
- Style guide with sections, [source](./examples/sections)
- Style guide with customized styles, [source](./examples/customised)
- Style guide with custom express endpoints, [source](./examples/express)
- Create React App integration, [source](./examples/cra)

## Showcase

Real projects using React Styleguidist:

- [Rumble Charts](https://rumble-charts.github.io/rumble-charts/)
- [better-react-spinkit](http://better-react-spinkit.benjamintatum.com/)
- [Semantic UI Components for React](https://hallister.github.io/semantic-react/)
- [Dialog Components](https://dialogs.github.io/dialog-web-components/)
- [Bulma Components](https://bokuweb.github.io/re-bulma/)
- [Yammer Components](https://microsoft.github.io/YamUI/)
- [More projects…](https://github.com/styleguidist/react-styleguidist/issues/127)

## Integration with other tools

- Create React App — supported out of the box, see the [Getting Started](https://react-styleguidist.js.org/docs/getting-started) guide
- Vue, see [Vue Styleguidist](https://github.com/vue-styleguidist/vue-styleguidist)

## Third-party tools

- [snapguidist](https://github.com/styleguidist/snapguidist): snapshot testing for React Styleguidist
- [react-styleguidist-visual](https://github.com/unindented/react-styleguidist-visual): automated visual testing for React Styleguidist, using Puppeteer and pixelmatch
- [styleguidist-scrapper](https://github.com/livechat/styleguidist-scrapper): scrapper script for documentation generated by React Styleguidist

## Resources

- [The Dream of Styleguide Driven Development](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjXnmhNW8Cs) talk by [Sara Vieira](https://github.com/saravieira)
- [Building React Components Library](https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/8140-building-react-components-library) talk by [Robert Haritonov](https://github.com/operatino)
- [Say Cheese: Snapshots and Visual Testing](https://developers.livechatinc.com/blog/snapshots-visual-testing/)
- [Interview with Artem Sapegin](https://survivejs.com/blog/styleguidist-interview/) about React Styleguidist.

## Change log

The change log can be found on the [Releases page](https://github.com/styleguidist/react-styleguidist/releases).

## Contributing

Everyone is welcome to contribute. Please take a moment to read the [contributing guidelines](.github/Contributing.md) and the [developer guide](https://react-styleguidist.js.org/docs/development).

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## Authors and license

[Artem Sapegin](http://sapegin.me) and [contributors](https://github.com/styleguidist/react-styleguidist/graphs/contributors).

Logo by [Sara Vieira](https://github.com/SaraVieira) and [Andrey Okonetchnikov](https://github.com/okonet).

MIT License, see the included [License.md](License.md) file.