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Chromatic
Company blog · chromatic.com/blogprogrammingwebdesign
Chromatic is the company blog at chromatic.com, writing about programming, web and design. Since 2020, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly link chromatic.com as the company behind Storybook and a visual regression testing service. Its links appear in job posts and tool recommendations, and the comments do not discuss the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Chromatic catches visual, interaction, and accessibility issues before they ship. This enforces your UI standards, even when AI codes. Assign reviewers to speed up sign-off and provide agents with validated UI context.
Most-linked posts?
- /features/test3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-04-25
- /company/jobs2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-05-01
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-25
What Hacker News says?
Chromatic.com / Storybook (fully remote, US timezone) We've just launched a major update to our product and are looking for an experienced DevOps / Software Engineer with Node.js expertise. Our stack is React, Next.js on Express with GraphQL, Mongo, Redis running on Heroku, AWS S3 & Lamdba. We build tools to help frontend developers build, test and share UI components. We do this by maintaining Storybook and buildin…
Comment linking /company/jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)”Submitted Chromatic 3: Visual testing integrations for Storybook, Playwright, and Cypress as a story · 9 points
HN discussionChromatic | Software Engineer | Remote (US or EU timezone) | Full time We maintain Storybook, the most popular open source tool for developing UI components. To fuel our open source work we build Chromatic, a cloud service for Storybook that automates workflows for UI feedback, visual regression testing and documentation. We're looking to grow our engineering team. We run a Next.js webapp, an Express/Mongo/GraphQL b…
Comment linking /company/jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)”Submitted Chromatic Integration for Cypress as a story · 1 points
HN discussionChromatic | Cloud Systems & UI Engineers | REMOTE, Americas | Full-time | https://chromatic.com We build open source and cloud devtools to help engineers ship better component based UIs. You’ll work on building services to handle thousands of requests a second across a cluster scaling to hundreds of machines as well as contributing to the popular Storybook open source project. Apply here: https://www.chromatic.com/c…
Comment linking /company/jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2020)”Submitted Putting Pets in Pajamas with E2E Visual Tests as a story · 1 points
HN discussionwhen suggesting a complementary or competing tool... it is best to add a link to it. https://www.chromatic.com/
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on “Storybook 6.0 your new favourite tool for front-end development”Submitted Playwright: Now with Automated Visual Testing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionStorybook pairs extremely well with https://www.chromatic.com to give you that great test automation experience. Essentially Chromatic runs visual diffing for all your stories. You can run them on multiple browsers and even for multiple view port sizes.
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on “Storybook 6.0 your new favourite tool for front-end development”Submitted Global Browser Report for 2023 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIn the same vein, I'm a fan of Storybook [1], which uses Jest under the hood [2], paired with Chromatic [3]. Chromatic generates screenshots from component stories for visual change detection with an easy to use and share web UI. It's neat. [1] https://storybook.js.org [2] https://storybook.js.org/docs/testing/structural-testing/ [3] https://www.chromatic.com
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on “How we test the TeamCity UI”Chromatic | Remote (EU/US) | Full-Time | https://www.chromatic.com We help developers build UIs with components. We maintain Storybook, the most popular open source tool for developing UI components. To fuel our open source work we build Chromatic, a cloud service for Storybook that automates workflows for UI feedback, visual regression testing, and documentation. We’re open source veterans previously involved with…
Comment linking /company/careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2022)”I've heard this called "snapshot testing" I've used Chromatic before and really enjoyed it: https://www.chromatic.com/features/test Jest also offers the core functionality if you want to roll your own tests: https://jestjs.io/docs/snapshot-testing
Comment linking /features/test
on “Ask HN: How to view UI changes before & after a pull request?”No I was sharing an example of a framework that does include "a testing system that allows it to inject mouse events". That being said mouse events and similar isn't hard to do, e.g. start with a fixed resolution (using xrandr) then xdotool or similar. Ideally if the application has accessibility feature it won't be as finicky. My point though was just to show that testing with GUI is not infeasible. Apparently ther…
Comment linking /blog/visual-test-driven-development/
on “Claude wrote a functional NES emulator using my engine's API”Can you speak to (the lazy among us) how this compares to the existing visual regressing testing solution[0] currently offered by Chromatic, the company behind Storybook? Thanks! [0]: https://www.chromatic.com/features/test
Comment linking /features/test
on “Show HN: Lost Pixel Platform – visual regression testing for your front end”https://percy.io/ , https://www.chromatic.com/features/test A few off the top of my head. Many e2e testing tools can capture and compare screenshots but I think to be maximally effective (and minimally frustrating) you want a tool to manage approving, reviewing, etc.
Comment linking /features/test
on “Weird stuff and how to test it”