The best Storybook alternatives
5 tools that do a similar job to Storybook, 5 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.
You're replacing
StorybookA workshop for building, viewing, and testing UI components one at a time, outside the full app.
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Nx
Open source · MIT · ★ 29.4k
A build tool for monorepos that caches unchanged work and runs only what's affected.
Best for: Teams with several related JavaScript or TypeScript projects in one repository; Developers who want to speed up existing package.json scripts without rewriting their setup
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Mitosis
Open source · MIT · ★ 14.5k
Write UI components once in a JSX-like syntax and compile them to many frameworks.
Best for: Teams maintaining the same UI components across more than one framework; Library authors who want to publish components for several frameworks
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React Styleguidist
Open source · MIT · ★ 11k
A tool for building React components in isolation, with a live, browsable style guide.
Best for: React developers who want to build components outside a full application; Teams that want a browsable, always-current catalog of their UI components
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GraphQL Code Generator
Open source · MIT · ★ 11.3k
Generates code from your GraphQL schema and queries, using plugins you choose.
Best for: Frontend developers who want typed code for GraphQL queries; Backend teams who want code generated from their schema
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Electron React Boilerplate
Open source · MIT · ★ 24.3k
A starter template for building desktop apps with Electron and React in TypeScript.
Best for: Developers who know React and want to build a cross-platform desktop app; Teams starting a new Electron project who want a maintained, pre-wired setup
How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to Storybook. We don't take payment for placement.