How Chromatic Helps Our Small (but Brave) Dev Team Move Fast Without Breaking Things

Written By Kevin Van der Straeten

At eventplanner.net, we may have a small development team—but we punch above our weight. One of the key tools that helps us move fast without sacrificing quality is Chromatic, a powerful solution for automated visual regression testing.

Here’s how it works.

Our entire front-end component library is built in Storybook, a UI workspace where each component of our event software - from buttons to complex forms - is isolated and documented. Chromatic integrates directly with Storybook to automatically render each component, take a snapshot, and compare it with the previous version.

This means that every time we push a change, Chromatic checks for visual differences and flags any unexpected UI regressions before they reach our users. Whether it’s a misaligned button or a layout shift, we know immediately when something’s off, before it hits production.

Thanks to Chromatic:

  • We catch visual bugs early,

  • Our team spends less time manually testing,

  • And we confidently ship new features to our event management software users faster.

In short, Chromatic acts as an extra set of eyes on every front-end change, helping our small (but brave!) dev team deliver a polished experience to event professionals everywhere.

Kevin Van der Straeten