Ladle is a tool designed for building and testing React components through stories. It serves as a seamless alternative to Storybook and is built using Vite and SWC. Our main goal is to ensure it's as swift and user-friendly as conceivable.

If you use stories to develop your React components, you might be also interested in some sort of test automation. Ladle and Playwright makes it easy to take screenshots of your stories and compare them against the previous version before you changed your code. We call this visual snapshot testing. Let's take a look at how you can automate it with Ladle. This solution is quick, free and self-hosted.

Ladle has been out for 3 months and the community feedback was overwhelming and amazing. Thank you! Some numbers:

Ladle is a tool for developing and testing your React components in an environment that's isolated and faster than most real-world applications. It supports Component Story Format – a concept widely popular thanks to Storybook. In fact, Ladle has been developed as a drop-in replacement of Storybook – it should already work with your existing stories.