backgrounds

Storybook Addon Backgrounds

Storybook Background Addon can be used to change background colors inside the preview in Storybook.

Framework Support

Installation

npm i -D @storybook/addon-backgrounds

Configuration

Then create a file called addons.js in your storybook config.

Add following content to it:

import '@storybook/addon-backgrounds/register';

Usage

Then write your stories like this:

import React from 'react';
import { storiesOf } from '@storybook/react';
import { withBackgrounds } from '@storybook/addon-backgrounds';

storiesOf('Button', module)
  .addDecorator(
    withBackgrounds([
      { name: 'twitter', value: '#00aced', default: true },
      { name: 'facebook', value: '#3b5998' },
    ])
  )
  .add('with text', () => <button>Click me</button>);

You can add the backgrounds to all stories with addDecorator in .storybook/config.js:

import { addDecorator } from '@storybook/react'; // <- or your storybook framework
import { withBackgrounds } from '@storybook/addon-backgrounds';

addDecorator(
  withBackgrounds([
    { name: 'twitter', value: '#00aced', default: true },
    { name: 'facebook', value: '#3b5998' },
  ])
);

If you want to override backgrounds for a single story or group of stories, pass the backgrounds parameter:

import React from 'react';
import { storiesOf } from '@storybook/react';

storiesOf('Button', module)
  .addParameters({
    backgrounds: [
      { name: 'red', value: '#F44336' },
      { name: 'blue', value: '#2196F3', default: true },
    ],
  })
  .add('with text', () => <button>Click me</button>);

If you don't want to use backgrounds for a story, you can set the backgrounds parameter to [], or use { disable: true } to skip the addon:

import React from 'react';
import { storiesOf } from '@storybook/react';

storiesOf('Button', module).add('with text', () => <button>Click me</button>, {
  backgrounds: { disable: true },
});

You can choose your background in a running storybook instance with the background query param and either set the background value or the name as the parameter value. E.g. ?background=twitter or ?background=#00aced.