nilbuild/driver.js

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26644 stars · 1193 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Driver.js is a lightweight (~5kb gzipped), dependency-free TypeScript library for creating product tours, feature introductions, and element highlights on web pages. It provides a customizable overlay API with popovers, keyboard navigation, and hooks that also supports contextual help, focus shifting, and modal-like use cases.

Use cases

• create a product tour walkthrough for a web app
• onboard new users with step-by-step guides
• highlight new features so users don't miss them
• add contextual help popovers next to form fields
• dim the page and focus attention on one element
• build interactive tutorials where users act as they learn

When to choose

• you need a tiny, zero-dependency tour/overlay library
• you want full control over highlighting, popovers, and tour behavior via hooks
• you need consistent behavior across all major browsers and mobile
• you want keyboard-accessible onboarding flows

When to avoid

• you need a full-featured SaaS onboarding platform with analytics and user segmentation
• you need React/Vue-specific declarative components rather than a vanilla JS API
• you need complex branching logic or server-managed tour content out of the box

Facets

library · maturity stable

ui-components animation state-management frontend web-development developer-tools browser cross-platform product-tour user-onboarding overlay spotlight popover walkthrough feature-introductions zero-dependencies typescript contextual-help nodejs

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