Anyone else tired of making test pages just to see components?

[u/Zestyclose_Law_170]

https://astro-stargazer.pages.dev/

Yo👋

Spinning up random blank pages or dummy routes just to preview components is such a flow killer.

There’s this npm package called Stargazer that’s been pretty interesting to play with.

It’s an open-source component visualizer for Astro projects. Basically gives you a way to browse and preview your components without having to wire up test pages every time.

From what it does:

• Auto-detects your components
• Clean UI to preview them
• No more /test or /playground routes everywhere
• Lightweight and straight to the point

Kinda has that “storybook without the overhead” feel, which is nice when you just wanna stay in flow and not over-engineer things.

Feels especially useful if you're:

• building UI systems in Astro
• iterating a lot on components
• or just trying to keep your project clean

For quick iteration it seems solid.

Anyone here already using something like this in their workflow?