Component APIs, documentation and versioning + Adoption and governance
Comes up in: Frontend system design, Low-level design, Hiring manager
This concept is being written. It gets the full five steps — explanation, predict, interview angle, practice with tests, and review cards. Here is exactly what it will cover, so you can study it elsewhere in the meantime.
What it covers
- API design principles (consistent props, composition, escape hatches)
- accessibility built in
- Storybook docs
- semantic versioning and deprecation
- codemods
- visual regression
- contribution models (centralised, federated)
- measuring adoption
- handling one-off requests
- working with designers
- staff-level influence stories
Words you will know
What you will practise
- design the API for Button, Select and Modal
- write a design-system adoption plan
Interview questions this answers
- How would you design a Button component API for a design system?
- How would you drive adoption of a design system across 10 teams?