Onboarding library OpenMaze

Installation
API Reference
Technical Details
- Z-index Layers
Authors
Contributors

Installation

Install this library with npm

npm i onboarding-library-openmaze

Import library styling near where you import your other css files

import 'onboarding-library-openmaze/dist/style.css';

API Reference

Popover

The Popover component is a component designed to display additional information or options in a small overlay that's positioned relative to another element. It can be used on its own or as a step in a product tour. The popover can be filled with content by adding the fitting parameters or by wrapping your own content with the popover element.

Usage

import { Popover } from 'onboarding-library-openmaze';
import { useRef } from 'react';
const targetRefOne = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);

<div ref={targetRefOne}>Target</div>
<Popover 
  targetRef={targetRefOne}
  targetSpacing={8}
  placement={'top'} 
  icon="chat"
  iconStyle="outlined"
  title="Chatbox"
  image="https://picsum.photos/id/237/1920/1080"
  text="Explaining text stuff. Look cute dog"
>
  <div>My content</div>
</Popover>

Parameter	Type	Description
`targetRef`	`React.RefObject<HTMLElement>`	Required Reference to the element you want to attach the popover to. The library expects you to use a `useRef` for this.
`targetSpacing`	`number`	Required A numerical variable that moves the popover a certain number of pixels away from the refferenced element.
`placement`	`'top' \| 'bottom' \| 'left' \| 'right'`	Required Where the popover will be placed relative to the reference element
`icon`	`string`	Accepts a string and uses it to apply the corresponding icon form the Material symbols library (Requires iconstyle to be defined)
`iconStyle`	`'outlined' \| 'rounded' \| 'sharp'`	Applies one of the three styling options from the Material symbols library to apply to the icon variable.
`title`	`string`	Accepts a string and places it inside of an h2 tag inside the popover. It is recommended to always have a title unless you're providing your own elements within the popover.
`image`	`string`	Accepts a string as a refference to an image and places that image inside the popover
`text`	`string`	Accepts a string and places it as the main text inside the popover component.

Popup

The pop is a component designed to convey more general information to you user. It coan be used on its own or as a step in a product tour. An example use case for this component could be for greeting a user when they first open you application and explaining the general usage your application provides.

Usage

import { Popup } from 'onboarding-library-openmaze';

<Popup
  title="Title 1"
  text="Supporting line text Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nam commodo pellentesque vehicula. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia curae;"
  image="https://picsum.photos/id/237/1920/1080"
>
  <div>My content</div>
</Popup>;

Parameter	Type	Description
`title`	`string`	Accepts a string and places it inside of an h2 tag inside the popup. It is recommended to always have a title unless you're providing your own elements within the popup.
`image`	`string`	Accepts a string as a refference to an image and places that image inside the popup
`text`	`string`	Accepts a string and places it as the main text inside the popup component.

ProductTour

The product tour component is used in order to wrap other elements of this library. It provides them with the context and logic to navigate to other onboarding elements making it able to chain them and provide a user with a product tour that highlights and explains the most important features of an application. Dont overwhelm users by creating long and exhaustive product tours. Try and keep it to a maximum of 5 steps per product tour.

Usage

import { ProductTour, Popover } from 'onboarding-library-openmaze';

<>
  <ProductTour dev={true} productTourId={'qapp-chat-pt'}>
    <Popover />
    <Popup />
    {/* Other onboarding elements */}
  <ProductTour />
</>

Parameter	Type	Description
`dev`	`boolean`	Required If set to true the product tour wont be stored in local storage when its finished.
`productTourId`	`string`	Required This is the variable the finished state of the tour will be stored under in localstorage.

Tailwind plugin

This library utilizes a tailwind plugin in order to allow users to apply certain styling changes to the library in order to make it fit with the styling of the project it will be implemented in.

Usage

import { OnboardingLibrary } from 'onboarding-library-openmaze';

module.exports = {
  // ...
  plugins: [
    OnboardingLibrary({
      colors: {
        primary: '#d32c10',
        background: '#8b7349',
        primaryLighter: '#dcbaf9',
        primaryDarker: '#841be0',
        secondary: '#39cfe8',
        gray: '#e6e6e6',
        grayDark: '#797979',
      },
    }),
  ],
};

Parameter	Type	Description	default
`primary`	`string`	Main color used for elements like buttons.	#8c1cec
`secondary`	`string`	Secondary color used for detailing like during a hover event.	#39cfe8
`gray`	`string`	Gray color used for non primary elements like a close button	#e6e6e6
`grayDark`	`string`	Darker variant of the gray color	#797979
`background`	`string`	Color used as the background of every component	#f4f4f4

Technical details

Z-index layers

The entire component library is built using z-index layers 40 and 41. This ensures that our components properly layer above standard application content but below any critical overlays or modals that might use higher z-index values to still be placed overtop by using standard tailwind classes. Here are the specific details:

z-index: 40 - Used for the darkoverlay that covers the page..
z-index: 41 - Used for library components.

Authors

@Raf Schapendonk