Intermediate

Build a Design System

Build a small set of reusable, accessible primitives — Button, Input, Modal — documented in Storybook. A design system is an API, not just a style guide: this project designs component APIs flexible enough for real product needs but constrained enough to stay visually consistent, and sets up visual regression checks.

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Intro

A design system is an API, not just a style guide

The hard part of a design system isn't the CSS — it's designing component APIs (props, variants, composition points) that are flexible enough for real product needs but constrained enough that every screen in the product actually looks consistent. This project builds Button, Input, and Modal primitives with variant props, documents them in Storybook, and sets up visual regression checks so a future change can't silently break an existing component's appearance.

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Step 1 — Design a Button API around variants, not one-off props

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Step 2 — Document components in Storybook

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Step 3 — Build a Modal with a real composition point

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Step 4 — Catch visual regressions automatically

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Secret Mission

Secret Mission: build a compound component

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Wrap Up

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