# nilbuild/driver.js

A lightweight, dependency-free JavaScript library for guiding user focus across the page.

Repository: https://github.com/nilbuild/driver.js
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/driverjs
Homepage: https://driverjs.com
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: tour, walkthrough, user-onboarding, feature-introductions, overlays, popover, overlay, spotlight, product-tour, product-tours
Last push: 2026-07-18T16:01:07+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 94/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 93, release rhythm 93, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3097, "days_push": 46, "days_rel": 47, "gap_med": 18, "n_releases_24m": 8}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 26644, forks 1193 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:47.053577+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: ui-components, animation, state-management
- domain: frontend, web-development, developer-tools
- platform: browser, cross-platform
- tags: product-tour, user-onboarding, overlay, spotlight, popover, walkthrough, feature-introductions, zero-dependencies, typescript, contextual-help, nodejs

## Member repositories
- nilbuild/driver.js (main) score 94

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:47.053577+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:55:50.491804+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/nilbuild/driver.js (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:47.053577+00:00, sha bf73142658ca)
  - homepage: https://driverjs.com (fetched 2026-08-29T07:52:24.378691+00:00, sha 4b4d5837bfec)
  - site_page: https://driverjs.com/docs/installation (fetched 2026-08-29T07:52:24.383651+00:00, sha c0699ae484fa)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/driver.js (fetched 2026-08-29T07:52:24.385908+00:00, sha 5bfb1ec27b4b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.