[HN Gopher] Histoire: A new way to write stories, powered by Vite
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Histoire: A new way to write stories, powered by Vite
Author : radus
Score : 36 points
Date : 2023-08-09 18:56 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| PaulHoule wrote:
| https://twitter.com/novus_rue/status/1476182586221215747
| arpowers wrote:
| Looks awesome.
|
| I always check for committed and professional open source devs
| before I consider a project. The devs behind this one are
| experienced Vue folks.
|
| Looking forward to giving it a try.
| pmontra wrote:
| Put an example in the home page. I went to GitHub and I found
| some ts code in the examples directories but I could not find any
| story, if these stories are what books are made of. If they are
| something else I might have seen one without realizing it.
| ericls wrote:
| Why do I need to care about what tool it is powered by?
| nerdix wrote:
| First I thought it was a tool for writing user stories.
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| Then I thought it was a tool for writing books.
|
| Then finally I discovered that it's a Storybook alternative. I
| think.
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| kkarimi wrote:
| What's the rationale behind supporting Vue and Svelte and not
| React/Solid?
| brianzelip wrote:
| - Looks like some of the authors are Vue core team members
|
| - the project is Vite forward
|
| - looks like React and Solid (and Angular) are in the roadmap
| Biologist123 wrote:
| Layman here. I was hoping this would be an AI tool which turns
| user stories into a web app.
|
| Seeking input from experts: how long until that day? Or is this
| that tool...?
| gremlinsinc wrote:
| Yeah, I was expecting something having to do with book writing,
| or user stories. Honestly, I don't understand when/why UI
| became a 'story'. I get storybook because storybooks have
| pictures, so it's more about the picture than the words on the
| page.
|
| However, the tool does look nice, if the 'hook' for the site
| isn't that explanatory. I might like to try it on svelte, I
| wonder how hard it'd be to integrate with
| laravel+livewire+alpine stack, because there's nothing like
| this for that. Probably a big value too.
| _jesse wrote:
| I also thought it was going to be for publishing writings
| online. They're reusing the lingo from storybook, which is
| going to be familiar to a lot of people in the frontend space
| these days.
|
| It does look like a great tool, I would definitely give it a
| try first before going to storybook.
| Taig wrote:
| I couldn't figure out what this is about without diving into the
| docs. The landing page left me mostly clueless.
| CharlesW wrote:
| Yes, it's not good. This helped me:
| https://blog.logrocket.com/writing-interactive-component-sto...
|
| > _With the release of Vue 3, a Storybook alternative named
| Histoire has gained some traction. In this blog post, we'll
| explore how to create interactive documentation of UI
| components for Vue 3 projects. As with Storybook, Histoire is
| designed for making your life much easier to create living
| style-guides and component showcases._
| moritzwarhier wrote:
| > Stories
|
| > Write stories to showcase and document your components.
|
| Until having used it, I was having similar questions about the
| domain of Storybook.
|
| But this sentence (first paragraph below the header and menu)
| sums it up clearly for every frontend developer IMO.
|
| Also this is linked and goes into more detail about what a
| "story" is:
|
| https://histoire.dev/guide/
| jsunderland323 wrote:
| I agree. I thought this was a substack competitor for the first
| minute.
| radus wrote:
| Though Storybook now supports Vite as well, I like Histoire
| because it cuts down on boilerplate, especially for Vue 3
| projects.
| dimmke wrote:
| >"Histoire is a tool to generate stories applications (or
| "books")."
|
| What a clever naming scheme! Nobody reads stories or books
| anymore, so when they see the word "story" they'll automatically
| assume you mean UX Story! This isn't ridiculously confusing at
| all.
| nonethewiser wrote:
| I assumed it was a writing tool that fit into a developer
| workflow. Git integration, build step, etc.
|
| And to be clear when I say write I mean like a novel or blog
| post. Like with the English language.
| dimmke wrote:
| Yeah I was being sarcastic this is bad
| nannal wrote:
| Thank you for helping me understand what this application is. I
| think,
| swyx wrote:
| this is unfairly negative, Storybook started calling it stories
| and before them, PMs and UX researchers, to the point that it
| was an industry understood term long before Histoire came
| along. the overloading is unfortunate but happens all the time
| - we don't complain about "bug" or "fork".
| stevage wrote:
| Agreed. So it's basically a tool for documenting components,
| with an obnoxious name.
|
| Even the use of french. Why French? Because it's really so
| exotic?
| UncleOxidant wrote:
| Oh... _those_ kinds of stories. I was hoping it might help me
| finally get around to writing that novel.
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