Treasure Box of a Software Engineer

No one can know everything but can learn everything.

The most useful resources to acquire as a software engineer is knowledge. Apart from acquiring knowledge, one needs to get up to date with the trending technology. There are lots of trending technology to follow and to read about.

As good as researching about trending technology of a particular stack or library, so is applying the knowledge acquired through the learning phase. The question that comes to the mind will be "How much knowledge I acquired can I remember?".

The best way to remember every knowledge acquired is to record it. As a software engineer, there are some components one reuse every time we implement new projects and every time we recreate such component which is not suppose to be. There are writeups that discuss how a design pattern should be and how to go about it, do and don't of design pattern, etc. I will be discussing one of the tools that you need to get familiar with as a frontend software engineer.

StoryBook

As defined on its documentation, the storybook is an open source tool for developing UI components in Isolation for React, Vue, and Angular. It gives one the capability to create an awesome gallery of reusable components. When one do any research about any design component and one love to remember when one need to use it, all one need to do, is to create the component in the storybook template.

How to Setup Story Book
Check the documentation for details on how to set it up in different framework.

Keeping up with trending technology has been made easy using Storybook. Been consistent in this will make one build up a wealth of components gallery and improve one design skill.

Temitope Olarewaju
Software Engineer
Andela