Storybook to Product

You designed the next version of a product right there in Storybook, out of the design system's real components, with real content, without tripping over a backend. It looks finished. It's front-of-the-front-end code that's largely ready for production.

Largely. Between that story and the live product sits everything Storybook never had to deal with: the product's own templating language, its data files, the modal that opens when you click the thumbnail, the form that posts to a serverless function, the copy somebody invented to fill out the design, and the design system release the new components haven't shipped in yet.