# easelinc/tourist

Simple, flexible tours for your app

Repository: https://github.com/easelinc/tourist
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/tourist
Homepage: http://easelinc.github.io/tourist/
Language: CoffeeScript
License Family: other
Archived: true
Last push: 2018-10-11T04:33:53+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4871, "days_push": 2883, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1217, forks 95 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:01.380478+00:00)

## What it is
Tourist.js is a small JavaScript library for creating step-by-step guided product tours in web applications. It lets developers define a sequence of steps pointing at UI elements, with hooks to manipulate the interface (e.g., open menus) before each step.

## Use cases
- add an onboarding tour to a single-page app
- walk new users through app features step by step
- highlight UI elements with tooltips in a guided sequence
- create a product walkthrough that opens menus or windows per step
- show a first-time user tutorial overlay in a Backbone app

## When to choose
- you have a complex single-page app built with jQuery/Backbone and need per-step UI control
- you want a lightweight, flexible tour library you can style and extend yourself
- you already use Bootstrap 3 or QTip2 for tooltips

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained library with active support or a license file
- your project doesn't use jQuery/Backbone dependencies
- you need modern framework (React/Vue) integrations or accessibility guarantees

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, animation
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools
- platform: browser
- tags: guided-tours, onboarding, product-tour, tooltips, backbone, jquery, coffeescript, javascript

## Member repositories
- easelinc/tourist (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:01.380478+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 2026-08-30T06:17:07.491334+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/easelinc/tourist (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:01.380478+00:00, sha 04fd5dc1fc5c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.