React Onboarder

Have you ever wanted to onboard your users to new features?

This module was built just for that. Say you've added a newly made feature that you want to draw attention to. With this module, we can create multiple "steps" to show off that feature, and it creates an overlay so you don't have to! If your item is lower on the page, we can now automatically scroll to where your feature exists.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Example
• API
• Gotchas
• Contributions
• License

Installation

yarn add react-onboarder
 
# Or if not using yarn: 
npm install react-onboarder

Example

import React from 'react';
import { Onboarder, Onboard } from 'react-onboarder';
 
class App extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        <NavBar />
        <Onboarder delay={3000}>
          <Main />
        </Onboarder>
      </div>
    );
  }
}
 
class Main extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        <div className="jumbotron">
          <h1>Hello, world!</h1>
          <p>...</p>
          <Onboard step={0}>
            <p><a className="btn btn-primary btn-lg" role="button">Learn more</a></p>
          </Onboard>
        </div>
        {/* Assume we have a list of items */}
        <ul className="list-group">
          {items.map(this.renderItem)}
        </ul>
      </div>
    );
  }
 
  renderItem(item, index) {
    // We need to make sure we only show the Onboards for the first items, not ALL the items.
    if (index === 0) {
      return (
        <li className="list-group-item" key={item.name}>
          {item.name}
          <div className="pull-right">
            <Onboard step={1}>
              <a className="btn btn-default" role="button">Edit</a>
            </Onboard>
            <Onboard step={2}>
              <a className="btn btn-danger" role="button">Delete</a>
            </Onboard>
          </div>
        </li>
      );
    } else {
      return (
        <li className="list-group-item" key={item.name}>
          {item.name}
          <div className="pull-right">
            <a className="btn btn-default" role="button">Edit</a>
            <a className="btn btn-danger" role="button">Delete</a>
          </div>
        </li>
      );
    }
  }
}

API

Onboarder Props

Property	Type	Default Value	Description
alpha	String	"0.3"	The amount of transparency for the overlay that is shown. Min is 0, max is 1.0. (CSS RGBA values)
color	String	"000000"	The hex value of the color for the overlay that is shown. (CSS RGBA values)
delay	Number	0	Amount of time to delay the highlight on react component load.
show	Boolean	true	Boolean to run the child highlights. If false, will show what's inside each Highlight but won't actually run the highlights.

Onboard Props

Property	Type	Default Value	Description
step	Number	0	The queue for when a the highlight goes off.
time	Number	undefined	The amount of time (in milliseconds) that the highlight will show. undefined or null creates an infinite highlight.
scroll	Boolean	false	Boolean to automatically scroll the item into the viewport.
className	String	undefined	Adding additional classes for when the highlight occurs. Will not exist before and after the highlight step occurs.
style	Object	undefined	Adding additional style for when the highlight occurs. Will not exist before and after the highlight step occurs.

Gotchas

Some items will not seem to be "highlighted". This is because the highlight really only takes into account the current item's CSS attributes. So if an item's background-color is buried back into multiple parents, then it will not show up. This is why you can add your own custom className or style to the item you're trying to highlight, which will make it be shown to your users.

Contributions

Contributors are welcome! Anything to help this project get used more and more, new features or bug fixes are always welcome. Submit a PR or an issue and we can discuss what you're planning on doing.

yarn build will build the files and to use it locally in your projects.

To use this project locally, just npm link while inside this folder, and then npm link react-onboarder inside the project you want to use it in, along with the yarn build, and everything should work properly!

Be sure to write tests and make sure the linter doesn't complain.

License

MIT