Widgetbook Cloud Builds

When you create a new commit in Git, a new version of your code is created. With Widgetbook Builds developers can host a Widgetbook for a Git commit and make it easily accessible for the whole team on Widgetbook Cloud. If set up with CI/CD, you can have a build for each commit, for each pull-request and for each branch.

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Pushing a new build

To create a Widgetbook Build, follow these steps inside your Widgetbook project:

  1. Run widgetbook_generator to generate metadata about your use-cases and components

    dart run build_runner build -d
    
  2. Build the Widgetbook for the web

    # Default target (i.e. `lib/main.dart`)
    flutter build web
    
    # Custom target
    flutter build web -t lib/main.widgetbook.dart
    
  3. Install the Widgetbook CLI

    dart pub global activate widgetbook_cli
    
  4. Get your API key from the Widgetbook Cloud's project settings page.

  5. Push the build to Widgetbook Cloud

    widgetbook cloud build push --api-key PROJECT_API_KEY
    

The cloud push command uses the following directories:

  1. build/web/ to create a .zip archive that will be uploaded to Widgetbook Cloud.
  2. .dart_tool/build/generated/[your_app_name]/ to send metadata, about the generated use-cases, that will be used for Widgetbook Cloud Review.