Storybook Events Inspector series
Turning a copy-pasted debug hack into an open source Storybook addon, then putting it to work.
- From a Copy-Pasted Debug Hack to My First Open Source Package: Building a Real Storybook Events Inspector
The scrappy debug component I kept carrying between design system projects, why it never quite worked, and the day it became a real Storybook addon with a test suite, an MCP server an AI agent can drive directly, and five actual npm publishes.
- Every Event, No Exceptions: Setting Up storybook-events-inspector — and Catching a Real Typo With It
A spotlight on the addon from the last post: the actual shadow-DOM bug it exists to catch, a real install-to-MCP setup walkthrough, and what happened the first time I pointed an AI agent at a real Storybook with it running.