Easily build a component library in React Native with Storybook and Shopify Restyle, helpful tools that help keep a codebase organized.

Building a component UI library is a great way to enforce design standards across an organization or codebase. However, it can come with severe technical roadblocks, especially in large libraries, because it can be easy to end up with a convoluted and hard-to-read codebase.

Thankfully, various tools have been developed to make the component library building process easier. In this article, we’ll be taking a look at some of the tools that make it easier to build component libraries in React Native, primarily Storybook and Shopify Restyle.

React Native has made it easier than ever to create cross-platform and powerful mobile applications using React and Javascript. With tons of community support, React Native also has a healthy ecosystem of plugins and tools that make it easier for software developers to write scalable mobile applications.

First, we’ll be taking a look at Storybook and what it can do for software developers, then dive into creating a very basic component library in React Native using Storybook and a great UI library called Shopify Restyle. At the end of this guide, you’ll have created and documented button and text components.

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