Storybook Play Functions for Interactive Design Systems

Building a modern design system requires more than static components; you must ensure your UI responds correctly to real-world user interactions. This text-based course guides you through mastering Storybook play functions to simulate clicks, keystrokes, and complex user journeys directly within your component stories. You will learn to: Understand the fundamentals of component-driven development and Storybook setup; Write play functions to automate user interactions like typing, clicking, and hovering; Integrate Testing Library assertions inside your stories to validate UI states; Set up automated interaction testing using modern headless test-runner tools; Apply accessibility checks to ensure interactive components are usable for everyone. You will start with foundational concepts of component-driven isolated environments before progressing to writing interactive scripts and running automated tests against your component library. This course is designed for frontend developers and UI engineers new to interactive testing in Storybook, with no advanced testing experience required. Start writing robust, self-testing design systems today.