Product tours, highlights, contextual help and more
Driver.js is a zero-dependency, lightweight, highly customizable, MIT Licensed, vanilla JavaScript engine that helps you drive user's focus on page. Comparing with other opensource alternaives, it's most feature-rich and is smallest in bundle size.
Hey everyone! I launched the initial version of Driver.js around 5 years ago. With millions of downloads, it has been used by thousands of companies including some famous brands. I recently rewrote the rendering engine from the ground up using TypeScript. It uses a different approach for highlighting elements and so is more powerful and highly customizable. Here are some of the highlights of this release:
- Rewritten in TypeScript.
- Popover is much more intelligent in its placement
- Supports async steps to allow more dynamic and interactive guides
- Support for non-element steps (i.e. where you just want to show a popup on screen)
- Ask for confirmation before exit
- Support for scrollable elements
- Allows showing progress during product tours
- More customizable than ever with more hooks
- Improved documentation with code samples for usage
- Popover hooks allow you to have more control over the popover rendering
- We have a brand new documentation website driverjs.com
Driver.js continues to be light-weight — the gzipped size is 5kb while the alternative libraries start at 12kb gzipped size. This release has closed all the open-issues and will allow us to expand on the features further.
Please do reach out if you have any feedback! 🙏
About driver.js on Product Hunt
“Product tours, highlights, contextual help and more”
driver.js launched on Product Hunt on July 6th, 2023 and earned 85 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #45 on the daily leaderboard. Driver.js is a zero-dependency, lightweight, highly customizable, MIT Licensed, vanilla JavaScript engine that helps you drive user's focus on page. Comparing with other opensource alternaives, it's most feature-rich and is smallest in bundle size.
On the analytics side, driver.js competes within Open Source, User Experience, Customer Communication and GitHub — topics that collectively have 486.8k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how driver.js performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted driver.js?
driver.js was hunted by Kamran Ahmed. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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