
Storybook Screenshots Go Stale the Day You Take Them
You finished your component library. You took beautiful screenshots of every component for the docs. Button variants, form states, card layouts. Looked great. Then someone changed the border radius token from 4px to 8px. Every screenshot is now wrong. Nobody updates them because there are 40 of them and the process is: open Storybook, find the story, resize the browser, take screenshot, crop it, save it, commit. So the docs show components that look slightly different from reality. Users notice. Trust erodes. Automate the screenshots Point your screenshot automation at your Storybook instance: { "screenshots" : [ { "name" : "button-primary" , "url" : "http://localhost:6006/iframe.html?id=components-button--primary" , "selector" : "#storybook-root > *" }, { "name" : "button-secondary" , "url" : "http://localhost:6006/iframe.html?id=components-button--secondary" , "selector" : "#storybook-root > *" }, { "name" : "card-default" , "url" : "http://localhost:6006/iframe.html?id=components-ca
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