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This is an Angular wrapper for theShepherd, site tour, library. It provides additional functionality, on top of Shepherd, as well.

• Angular 8: 0.5.0
• Angular 9: 0.6.0
• Angular 10: 0.7.0
• Angular 11: 11.x
• Angular 12: 12.x
• Angular 13: 13.x
• Angular 14: 14.x
• Angular 15: 15.x
• Angular 16: 16.x
• Angular 17: 17.x
• Angular 18: 18.x
• Angular 19: 19.x
• Angular 20: 20.x

This has not been tested in anything but Angular 8+. It may or may not work in previous versions or subsequent versions of Angular. We would love to support multiple versions, if people with more Angular knowledge would be willing to help us out!

npm install angular-shepherd --save

NOTE: This may not be the proper Angular way to do everything, as I am not an Angular dev, so please let me know if you have suggestions!

Shepherd ships a single style file, which you will need to include. You can do so by adding it to your angular.json.

"styles": ["node_modules/shepherd.js/dist/css/shepherd.css"  ],

Then, you will need to inject theShepherdService to be able to interact with Shepherd and calladdSteps to add your steps,start to start the tour, etc.

You could either do this at the application level, in your application component or on a per component or per route/view basis.

NOTE: It is highly recommended to inject ShepherdService into yourapp.component.ts. Injecting it at the app level ensures you only create one instance of Shepherd.

In that component you will want to useAfterViewInit toaddSteps to the Shepherd service.

import{Component,typeAfterViewInit}from'@angular/core';import{ShepherdService}from'angular-shepherd';import{stepsasdefaultSteps,defaultStepOptions}from'../data';@Component({selector:'shepherd',templateUrl:'./shepherd.component.html',styleUrls:['./shepherd.component.css']})exportclassShepherdComponentimplementsAfterViewInit{constructor(privateshepherdService:ShepherdService){}ngAfterViewInit(){this.shepherdService.defaultStepOptions=defaultStepOptions;this.shepherdService.modal=true;this.shepherdService.confirmCancel=false;this.shepherdService.addSteps(defaultSteps);this.shepherdService.start();}}

The following configuration options can be set on the ShepherdService to control the way that Shepherd is used.The only required option issteps, which is set viaaddSteps.

confirmCancel is a boolean flag, when set totrue it will pop up a native browser confirm window on cancel, to ensure you want to cancel.

confirmCancelMessage is a string to display in the confirm dialog whenconfirmCancel is set to true.

defaultStepOptions is used to set the options that will be applied to each step by default. You can pass in any of the options that you can with Shepherd.

⚠️ You must setdefaultStepOptionsBEFORE callingaddSteps to set the steps.

It will be an object of a form something like:

this.shepherdService.defaultStepOptions={classes:'custom-class-name-1 custom-class-name-2',scrollTo:false,cancelIcon:{enabled:true}};

default value:{}

requiredElements is an array of objects that indicate DOM elements that areREQUIRED by your tour and must exist and be visible for the tour to start. If any elements are not present, it will keep the tour from starting.

You can also specify a message, which will tell the user what they need to do to make the tour work.

⚠️ You must setrequiredElementsBEFORE callingaddSteps to set the steps.

Example

this.shepherdService.requiredElements=[{selector:'.search-result-element',message:'No search results found. Please execute another search, and try to start the tour again.',title:'No results'},{selector:'.username-element',message:'User not logged in, please log in to start this tour.',title:'Please login'}];

default value:[]

modal is a boolean, that should be set to true, if you would like the rest of the screen, other than the current element, greyed out, and the current element highlighted. If you do not need modal functionality, you can remove this option or set it to false.

default value:false

You must pass an array of steps toaddSteps, something like this:

this.shepherdService.addSteps([{id:'intro',attachTo:{element:'.first-element',on:'bottom'},beforeShowPromise:function(){returnnewPromise(function(resolve){setTimeout(function(){window.scrollTo(0,0);resolve();},500);});},buttons:[{classes:'shepherd-button-secondary',text:'Exit',type:'cancel'},{classes:'shepherd-button-primary',text:'Back',type:'back'},{classes:'shepherd-button-primary',text:'Next',type:'next'}],cancelIcon:{enabled:true},classes:'custom-class-name-1 custom-class-name-2',highlightClass:'highlight',scrollTo:false,title:'Welcome to Angular-Shepherd!',text:['Angular-Shepherd is a JavaScript library for guiding users through your Angular app.'],when:{show:()=>{console.log('show step');},hide:()=>{console.log('hide step');}}},  ...]);

In Shepherd, you can have as many buttons as you want inside a step. You can build an object with some premade buttons, making it easier to manipulate and insert in new steps. Buttons by default accept three different types: back, cancel, next. In this simple example, we have three buttons: each one with different types and classes.

constbuiltInButtons={cancel:{classes:'cancel-button',text:'Cancel',type:'cancel'},next:{classes:'next-button',text:'Next',type:'next'},back:{classes:'back-button',secondary:true,text:'Back',type:'back'}};

Buttons have an action property, which must be a function. Whenever the button is clicked, the function will be executed. You can use it for default shepherd functions, likethis.shepherdService.complete() orthis.shepherdService.next(), or create your own function to use for the action.

constbuiltInButtons={complete:{classes:'complete-button',text:'Finish Tutorial',action:function(){returnconsole.log('button clicked');}}};

⚠️ You can't set up a type and an action at the same time inside a button.

To learn more about button properties, look at thedocumentation.

See theStep docs for all available Step options.