The Legendary Fountain of Truth: Componentize Your Documentation!
summary
Argues that documentation must live with code as the single source of truth in code and shows a working stack: MDX (plus MDJS and MD Vite), Storybook or naked MDX setups, and component-first tools like Backlight and webcomponent.dev. Demonstrates embedding components inside Markdown, live playgrounds and props tables, and a design‑system editor that stores stories tests and docs next to component code. MDX plus stories format plus playgrounds and prop tables is presented as a practical, already‑working workflow.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:43Single Source of Truth
- 2:36Documentation Framework
- 6:59ComponentDriven Development
- 10:10Play with Docs Live
- 10:50Markdown
- 12:12MDSX
- 14:31MDX
- 17:00Component Documentation
- 18:47Playgrounds Props
- 20:18Storybook Props
- 21:03MDX Components
- 21:18How to migrate to MDX
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