Lookbook v1.0 release 🥳

[allmarkedup]

Hey all,

Lookbook is a tool I've been working on to help browse, preview, test and document ViewComponents in Rails apps. It's been around for a little while now but I've just released version 1.0 with some new features that I'm quite excited about so I thought I'd share a few details here 🙂

The majority of the new features are all about customising and extending the default Lookbook experience - UI themes, bespoke preview inspector panels, custom preview tags and more. And a bunch of other under-the-hood improvements have been made including a completely rebuilt frontend (now using ViewComponent!) which will provide a much more solid foundation for future development.

For those who are interested there is an updated demo app to explore (with the associated repo here).

And there is a brand new documentation site up at https://lookbook.build with details on how to get started or upgrade to v1.0 as well as full documentation on all of Lookbook's features.

If anyone has any questions or suggestions feel free to drop a comment below and I'll try to reply as soon as possible. Or of course open an issue on the Lookbook repo if you do give it a try and run into any issues!

[Spone]

Hi @allmarkedup I had the chance to upgrade Lookbook in one of my current projects and give a go to v1. I have to say I'm super impressed by what you achieved over the past year! Lookbook already was our go-to tool for developing ViewComponents, but the latest features make it a very compelling interactive documentation tool as well. Congrats!

[allmarkedup]

Hey @Spone, thanks for the kind words 😊 It's all still a learning process but I'm really enjoying working on it. And I'm really glad you are enjoying the new additions too. Lots more to come hopefully ;-)

[Jackson200]

@allmarkedup This is great. I had seen Lookbook in passing, but thought it would be a bit of a procedure to get going. I couldn't have been more wrong! bundle install, and paste in the route. So long default component previews. This changes everything :)

[allmarkedup]

@Jackson200 that is good to hear! Needing zero additional configuration to get started (beyond mounting as an engine and the standard viewcomponent config) was one of my main goals of the project so I'm glad it's working out for you :-)