# storybook-addon-web-components-knobs

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# Features

- Create API documentation/playground

## Setup

```bash
npm i storybook-addon-web-components-knobs @storybook/addon-docs
```

### Create API playground

::: tip
You can find a more interactive version of this in the [withWebComponentsKnobs docs](https://open-wc.org/demoing-storybook/?path=/docs/decorators-withwebcomponentknobs--example-output).
:::

Base on the data in [custom-elements.json](./#custom-elementsjson) we can automatically generate knobs for your stories.

To enable this feature you will need to add an additional decorator.

**MDX**

```md
import { withKnobs, withWebComponentsKnobs } from '@open-wc/demoing-storybook';

<Meta
  title="WithWebComponentsKnobs|Docs"
  decorators={[withKnobs, withWebComponentsKnobs]}
  parameters={{ component: 'demo-wc-card', options: { selectedPanel: 'storybookjs/knobs/panel' } }}
/>

<Story name="Custom Header" height="220px">
  {html`
    <demo-wc-card header="Harry Potter">A character that is part of a book series...</demo-wc-card>
  `}
</Story>
```

**CSF**

```js
import { html } from 'lit-html';
import { withKnobs, withWebComponentsKnobs } from '@open-wc/demoing-storybook';

import '../demo-wc-card.js';

export default {
  title: 'Card|Playground',
  component: 'demo-wc-card',
  decorators: [withKnobs, withWebComponentsKnobs],
  parameters: { options: { selectedPanel: 'storybookjs/knobs/panel' } },
};

export const singleComponent = () => html` <demo-wc-card></demo-wc-card> `;
```

For additional features like

- define which components to show knobs for
- showing knobs for multiple different components
- syncing components states to knobs
- Filtering properties and debugging states

please see the official [documentation of the knobs for web components decorator](/demoing-storybook/?path=/docs/decorators-withwebcomponentknobs--example-output).

### custom-elements.json

In order to get documentation for web-components you will need to have a [custom-elements.json](https://github.com/webcomponents/custom-elements-json) file.
You can hand write it or better generate it. Depending on the web components sugar you are choosing your mileage may vary.
Please not that the details of the file are still being discussed so we may adopt to changes in `custom-elements.json` without a breaking release.

Known analyzers that output `custom-elements.json`:

- [web-component-analyzer](https://github.com/runem/web-component-analyzer)
  - Supports LitElement, Polymer, Vanilla, (Stencil)
- [stenciljs](https://stenciljs.com/)
  - Supports Stencil (but does not have all metadata)

It basically looks like this:

```json
{
  "version": 2,
  "tags": [
    {
      "name": "demo-wc-card",
      "properties": [
        {
          "name": "header",
          "type": "String",
          "description": "Shown at the top of the card"
        }
      ],
      "events": [],
      "slots": [],
      "cssProperties": []
    }
  ]
}
```

For a full example see the [./demo/custom-elements.json](./demo/custom-elements.json).