CLI argument to open storybook to a specific story

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CLI argument to open storybook to a specific story #7664

Open elevatebart opened 5 years ago

elevatebart commented 5 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I am frustrated when I have to search for the story I am looking for among the 1000 stories my storybook has.

Describe the solution you'd like A CLI argument that would allow the storybook command to open to an existing story.

Describe alternatives you've considered We could instead filter stories that open. We would not have to search

Are you able to assist bring the feature to reality? I can cook up a pull request but it might take time

Additional context What would be even better would be integration with IDEs and code editors (VSCode, Atom, WebStrorm)?

elevatebart commented 5 years ago

@mdvorscak this was your idea, credit is due where credit is due ;)

elevatebart commented 5 years ago

@shilman Do you think there are enough details to start a discussion? To start coding.

shilman commented 5 years ago

This sounds reasonable. How do you expect users to run it? Like this:

yarn storybook --story my-button--basic

Or is it more of a utility for integrating with other tools?

Related #6201 #5065 #5855

elevatebart commented 5 years ago

I was thinking of exactly this, to start with. This would probably allow external tools to interact efficiently with the parameter Because the story names can be lengthy, next step would be to allow to specify only part of the name. Think of it like in jest: instead of