Generate index.json without full build?

[scottnath]

Summary

Hi team,

We're using index.json content within some locally-generated JSON files. The index.json content is combined with various other component data (such as args for each story, list of component-owned files, etc). We use this data to create component-data.json files for each component. These files are then imported by other systems to build data tables and whatnot.

One issue we run into is when other parts of our app need component-data.json and it's not generated, then we need to do a whole build-storyboook...and building storybook requires a bunch of other repo stuff to be built (because it's a big app)

questions:

1. Is there a way to generate index.json, without building storybook?
2. If so, is there a way to include each story's args in the generated index.json? (our current solution is to open each stories file and extract the args)
3. Is what I'm asking here the purpose of a custom indexer?

thanks for any help, Scott

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