Kamran Ahmed
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Three fixes to how hints look and behave: The popover arrow used to land beside the dot: it sits a fixed corner inset from the popover's edge, while start/end alignment put the popover edge flush with the beacon. The position options now pass the difference between the arrow tip and the beacon's half-size as the alignment pull-back, so the arrow points at the beacon's center. The arrow also gets a faint halo — it is a white triangle designed to sit against a tour's darkened overlay, and vanished on light pages without one. The default beacon grows from 20px to 24px (still --driver-hint-size), and defaults to a lighter indigo. New opt-in overlay: overlay: true dims the page while a hint is open (overlayColor/overlayOpacity to taste). Beacons and the popover sit above it so hints stay clickable, and clicking the dimmed page closes the hint like any outside click. Verified in a real browser — beacons float above the dim, arrow centered on the dot.
Driver.js
Powerful, highly customizable library for Product Tours and Feature Introductions
No external dependencies, light-weight, supports all major browsers and highly customizable
- Simple: is simple to use and has no external dependency at all
- Light-weight: is just 5kb gzipped as compared to other libraries which are +12kb gzipped
- Highly customizable: has a powerful API and can be used however you want
- Highlight anything: highlight any (literally any) element on page
- Feature introductions: create powerful feature introductions for your web applications
- Focus shifters: add focus shifters for users
- User friendly: Everything is controllable by keyboard
- TypeScript: Written in TypeScript
- Consistent behavior: usable across all browsers
- MIT Licensed: free for personal and commercial use
Documentation
For demos and documentation, visit driverjs.com
So, yet another tour library?
No, it's more than a tour library. Tours are just one of the many use-cases. Driver.js can be used wherever you need some sort of overlay for the page; some common usecases could be: highlighting a page component when user is interacting with it to keep them focused, providing contextual help e.g. popover with dimmed background when user is filling a form, using it as a focus shifter to bring user's attention to some component on page, using it to simulate those "Turn off the Lights" widgets that you might have seen on video players online, usage as a simple modal, and of-course product tours etc.
Driver.js is written in Vanilla TypeScript, has zero dependencies and is highly customizable. It has several options allowing you to change how it behaves and also provides you the hooks to manipulate the elements as they are highlighted, about to be highlighted, or deselected.
Also, comparing the size of Driver.js with other libraries, it's the most light-weight, it is just ~5kb gzipped while others are 12kb+.
Developing locally
The library lives in src/. To try your changes against a set of live examples, run the playground — an Astro app in playground/ that imports the library straight from source, so edits hot-reload instantly:
pnpm install
pnpm run playground:install
pnpm dev
Each example lives in its own file under playground/src/examples/ and shows up as a page in the sidebar. To add one, drop an entry into the relevant group (highlight.ts, popover.ts, tour.ts, api.ts).
Other useful scripts:
pnpm build
pnpm test
Contributions
Feel free to submit pull requests, create issues or spread the word.
License
MIT © Kamran Ahmed