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Dev tools · July 6, 2023

driver.js

Product tours, highlights, contextual help and more

driver.js launched on July 6, 2023 with 86 votes, #960 of 4,347 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

What it does

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.

Lightweight JavaScript library for product tours, highlights, and contextual help for your product. 4M+ monthly downloads, used by tens of thousands of projects . Click an example below to see driver.js in action, or find more in the documentation . Due to its extensive API, driver.js can be used for a wide range of use cases. Explain how to use your product and answer common questions. Walk users through tasks step by step, letting them act as they learn. Guide users field by field and point straight to inputs that need fixing. Import driver.js, describe your steps, and call drive() . That's the whole setup. Hints follow the same recipe with show() . Works with any framework or library, or…from driverjs.com

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