A Quick Look Back

Speed-ups

Let’s take a moment to appreciate all of the speed-ups that we’ve taken advantage of.

1. The creation of the React application was a simple one-line command. There was no need to worry about the underlying technologies like Webpack. The creation of the components was then sped up by getting to instantaneously see how they look, tweak them, and combine them.
2. Without Storybook, testing the various screens that the application can render would require laborious interactive testing where the application is repeatedly run with varying parameters or it is used to get those screens to show. For instance, if there’s a problem on the GameOver screen and we need to play a game first before we can see it, we might be tempted to try a fix-and-repeat multiple times. Instead of that, we can use Storybook to fix it immediately.