Do we need "Guided tours" for user onboarding?

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"Guided tours are a series of small pop-ups added to a website, that guide users through the steps required to accomplish a task. Recently guided tours have gained a lot of attention, as they are a user-friendly, natural way of assisting users on online interfaces. There is a large demand for solutions that you can use to create guided tours. From a wide variety of available solutions, this post aims to offer an overview of guided tour applications that have a free trial, free plan, or a free, open source version.

Open source solutions let you set up and use your own guided tour system for free. Most of the solutions are JavaScript libraries, so you’ll need coding skills to use them.

Here’s a list of some JavaScript libraries, but there are more and more popping up:

• Amberjack: A tool for webmasters to add guided tours capability to websites. The Tour Wizard helps you fine-tune the solution (skin, behaviour, button captions) and gives you the customized code to paste into your website.
• Crumble: This solution offers visually interesting bubbles. The tour itself is defined as a standard ordered list in your HTML.
• Bootstrap: A widely used, flexible solution, but you’ll need coding skills to use it.
  Joyride: The Joyride Kit includes the necessary JS + CSS, but also a demo HTML page that shows off how to hook up your first tour using different options.
• HopScotch: Hopscotch accepts a tour JSON object as input and provides an API for the developer to control rendering the tour display and managing the tour progress. It supports the creation of multi-page tours."

Source: https://pronovix.com/blog/free-and-open-source-walkme-alternatives