React UI Walkthrough

Introduction

The React UI Walkthrough is a React-based library designed to guide users through a step-by-step tutorial within a web application. By providing contextual tooltips attached to specific elements on the page, the system offers interactive, on-the-spot guidance to enhance user understanding and improve the overall user experience.

Example

To use the Tutorial Tooltip System, wrap your application's main component with the TutorialProvider and pass an array of steps to it. Each step includes the ID of the target element, the text for the tooltip, and optional positioning and style properties. The TutorialProvider component accepts an optional dimStyle property, allowing the user to define custom styling for the dimming overlay effect.

Here's a basic example:

import './App.css'
import { HorizontalPosition, TutorialProvider, VerticalPosition } from 'react-ui-walkthrough';

const TutorialSteps=[
  {
    elementId: "a1",
    text: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit.",
    verticalPosition: VerticalPosition.Bottom,
    horizontalPosition: HorizontalPosition.Left,
    tooltipStyle: {
      color: 'yellow'
    }
  },
  {
    elementId: "a2",
    text: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit.",
    verticalPosition: VerticalPosition.Middle,
    horizontalPosition: HorizontalPosition.Center
  },
  {
    elementId: "a3",
    text: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit.",
    verticalPosition: VerticalPosition.Top,
    horizontalPosition: HorizontalPosition.Right
  }
];

function App() {

  return (<>
    <TutorialProvider steps={TutorialSteps} dimStyle={{
      backgroundColor: 'rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)'
    }} showTooltip={true}>
      <div>
        <h1 id="a1">This is main title</h1>
        <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Veniam, mollitia id, facilis fuga natus eveniet non soluta molestias quibusdam voluptatibus dignissimos hic reprehenderit nisi odit vero sit saepe assumenda nam.</p>
      </div>
      <div>
        <button id="a2">Do something</button>
        <h2>This is subtitle</h2>
        <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Necessitatibus officiis perferendis harum beatae rem dignissimos error! Officia ab eaque eveniet, delectus vitae quis in suscipit illum doloribus alias nam aspernatur!</p>  
      </div>
      <button id="a3">This is lower button</button>  
      </TutorialProvider>
    </>
  )
}

export default App

Using Context

To access the TutorialContext within a child component, utilize the useContext hook that React provides. This enables you to retrieve the details of the current step and the entire list of tutorial steps.

import React, { useContext } from 'react';
import { TutorialContext } from 'react-ui-walkthrough';

const SomeChildComponent = () => {
  // Access the tutorial context
  const tutorialContext = useContext(TutorialContext);

  if (!tutorialContext) {
    // Handle the case where context is not available
    return null;
  }

  // Use tutorialContext to access the active step or steps array
  const { activeStep, steps } = tutorialContext;

  // Render something based on the context
  return <div>{`Current Step: ${steps[activeStep].text}`}</div>;
};