storybook/app/react-native/docs/manual-setup.md

Manual Setup

First, install the @storybook/react-native module

yarn add @storybook/react-native --dev

Create a new directory called storybook in your project root and create an entry file (index.js) as given below. (Don't forget to replace "MyApplicationName" with your app name).

storybook/index.js

import { AppRegistry } from 'react-native';
import { getStorybookUI, configure } from '@storybook/react-native';
import './rn-addons';

// import stories
configure(() => {
  // eslint-disable-next-line global-require
  require('./stories');
}, module);

const StorybookUIRoot = getStorybookUI();

AppRegistry.registerComponent('MyApplicationName', () => StorybookUIRoot);
export default StorybookUIRoot;

Create a file called rn-addons.js In this file you can import on device addons.

storybook/rn-addons.js

import '@storybook/addon-ondevice-knobs/register';
import '@storybook/addon-ondevice-notes/register';
...

Then write your first story in the stories directory like this:

import { storiesOf } from '@storybook/react-native';
import React from 'react';
import { View, Text } from 'react-native';

const style = {
  flex: 1,
  justifyContent: 'center',
  alignItems: 'center',
  backgroundColor: '#F5FCFF'
};
const CenteredView = ({ children }) => (
  <View style={style}>
    {children}
  </View>
);

storiesOf('CenteredView', module)
  .add('default view', () => (
    <CenteredView>
      <Text>Hello Storybook</Text>
    </CenteredView>
  ));

Finally replace your app entry with

import './storybook';

For example, if your entry app is named App.js/index.js (Expo/Vanilla). You can replace it with the following.

import StorybookUI from './storybook';

export default StorybookUI;

If you cannot replace your entry point just make sure that the component exported from ./storybook is displayed somewhere in your app. StorybookUI is simply a RN View component that can be embedded anywhere in your RN application, e.g. on a tab or within an admin screen.

Server support

If you want to support having a storybook server running install storybook server npm install --save-dev @storybook/react-native-server and add following NPM script into your package.json file:

{
  "scripts": {
    "storybook": "storybook start"
  }
}

If you want to have addons inside browser, create a file named addons.js file in storybook. Here is a list of default addons:

storybook/addons.js

import '@storybook/addon-actions';
import '@storybook/addon-links';