It comes from a desire to turn something simple - a dedicated place in your project to try and document your reusable components - into a product. Then, much li

It comes from a desire to turn something simple - a dedicated place in your project to try and document your reusable components - into a product. Then, much like Twitter has tweets, Codepen has pens, Reddit has subreddits etc, so Storybook has stories. It should probably never have been so productized, because it is way more complex than it needs to be. Again, it’s a very simple idea, and in my experience, many teams use only the most basic setup, and have never really considered why they took on a VC-funded dependency just to render some components.