Generate Documentation Effortlessly with Autodocs

Michael Chan
InstructorMichael Chan
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Effortlessly generate interactive and detailed documentation for your components with the autodocs tag. Learn how to turn comments and prop definitions into rich, readable docs.

[00:00] Documenting components is no one's favorite task, so allow me to show you how Storybook lets us do it in one line of configuration code. Open the button stories that we made, locate the component meta, and add a new property called tags. This option takes an array. We want to include the value [00:20] auto docs. Hit save and immediately we'll see this new docs page. This is just bewildering even after I've done it a 1000 times. We have a title, a description, a small component playground that includes copy pastable sample code, a table of all of the component [00:40] interface details. And this table is interactive so as we set values, we see those respond in real time. Additionally, we can see all of these story states that we've included in our CSF file, each with their individual copy and pastable code snippets. This right [00:59] here is the power of Storybook that with one line, you can generate all of this documentation. It's wild.

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