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Next.js onboarding with reactour (tour.js).

• By - Danny B.
• Posted on June 30, 2022 October 18, 2022
• Posted in Material UI , NextJS , React

Tour.js is a free JavaScript library for user onboarding. This library guides users through complex features of your application. By making an app easier to navigate, you can increase traffic and decrease the bounce rate upon first interaction. This post will go over a simple example of how to run Tour.js on a single page with a MUI components. This demo uses MUI Version 5.x .

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Source Files

Prerequisites.

If you are not using the source files above then get the Next.js template from MUI . You might have to clone the entire repository to get it, but it is worth the effort. The template from MUI has everything configured out of the box and is ready to use. Installing Material manually can be challenging if you are still a novice with Next.js .

https://github.com/mui/material-ui/tree/master/examples/nextjs

React Tour – Onboarding Library

Install Reactour which is a wrapper for Tour.js .

https://www.npmjs.com/package/reactour

Install Styled-Components for Tour.js .

MUI Table Component – (Optional)

Create a component labeled BasicTable under ‘./components’ . Copy the code from MUI (below). This is for the demo page.

https://mui.com/material-ui/react-table/#basic-table

CSS Styling for the Tour

Create a style sheet under ‘./styles’ labeled tour.module.css

The Demo Page

Create the Tour page under ‘./pages ‘ labeled as ‘./pages/tour.js’ .

Below are all of the imports for the demo.

Import reactour Dynamically

Import reactour dynamically since it cannot be rendered on the server.

Single Step Example

Example of a single reactour step. You have the selector and the content you want to display for that step.

Styling to a Step

Event handing for reactour, configuring reactour.

Put the <Tour/> component somewhere in the rendering part of the page.

The following properties are used in this example

accentColor={accentColor}

nRequestClose={closeTour}

All together

All of the source code for the demo page.

Automatically show for first time visitors.

Using the browser’s local storage to store a value when the user has visited the page or application.

Now that you know the basics of Tour.js , try putting the steps in a separate file or decorate the steps with buttons and colors. If Tour.js isn’t for you, check out some of the other onboarding libraries below.

https://introjs.com/

https://react-joyride.com/

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Tourist guide for react – reactour, description:.

The Reactour component lets you create an interactive guided tour for your web app.

Installation:

Import the component.

Add the component (with your own tours) to your web app.

Default props.

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• Aug 6, 2020

A Practical Guide To Product Tours In React Apps

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As stated on Appcues :

“Product tours — sometimes called product walkthroughs — introduce users to a new product and help them find their bearings.”

Usually, when it needs to showcase a new feature or complex UI functionality in a web app, the customer-success team would send a campaign email to all of its users. While this is a great way to create such awareness, some users might not have the opportunity to see the added feature; hence, the purpose of the email would be defeated.

A better way to increase user awareness of a particular feature in a web app is by integrating concise, self-explanatory UI tips, called product tours.

Product tours guide users to “a-ha” moments , or showcase high-value features that are being underused. Product tours can be powerful tools to introduce users to a new product and to help them find their bearings. They can draw attention to product launches, promo offers, and product sales.

But when done wrong, product tours can end up feeling like a backseat driver. And no one likes a backseat driver, do they?

In this tutorial, you’ll learn about what a product tour is and the types of product-tour packages in the React ecosystem, along with their pros and cons.

If you’re building customer-facing products using React, then you might be keen to implement this in your React application. By the end, we’ll have built a product tour for a simple shopping-cart UI using React Joyride .

We won’t go through React and JavaScript’s syntax basics, but you don’t have to be an expert in either of these languages to follow along.

Product Tour Guidelines

Product tours are a tricky aspect of web apps, requiring some user-experience expertise to drive results. I’d recommend going through Appcues’ tips for product tours. The following are a few guidelines to consider.

Never Lecture

Putting a lot of tours on a web page is tempting. But users are usually not keen on long introductory tutorials. They become anxious when they have to ingest a lot of information before being able to use a feature in the app.

Break It Down

Don’t teach everything. Focus on a single feature, and create a tour of two to three steps to showcase that feature. Show many small tours, rather than a single long tour. Prioritize their sequence.

Do you enjoy taking your own tour? How about your teammates? Present the tour in such a way that users will understand. Showcase value, rather than stories.

Now that we know the value of product tours and seen some guidelines for building them, let’s cover some React libraries for product tours and learn how to use them.

There are only a few React-based libraries for implementing tours. Two of the most popular are React Tour and React Joyride .

React Tour has around 1,600 stars on GitHub and is being actively developed. The best use case for React Tour is a simple product tour in which little customization is required. A demo is available.

How It Works

With React Tour, you pass the className selector and content for each step to the component. The library will render the tour’s user interface based on a button click, or after you’ve mounted the component. It’s simple for static pages and UIs:

• React Tour is best for tours that need little customization.
• It works well for static content and for dynamic content whose selector labels always exist in the UI.
• Fans of styled-components might find it interesting because it has a hard dependency on styled-components.
• If your project has no dependency on styled-components, then you might not find it easy to implement.
• Your creativity will be limited because it doesn’t support customization.

React Joyride

The other main product-tour library is React Joyride , which has about 3,100 stars on GitHub and is also actively maintained.

We pass the className as a target and the content. The state stores the tour. The Joyride component uses steps as props.

• Integrating React Joyride in a web app is less rigid than with React Tour, and it has no hard dependency on other libraries.
• Events and actions are made available, which fosters customization.
• It’s frequently improved.
• The UI isn’t as elegant as React Tour’s.

Why React Joyride?

Product tours, especially for really big web apps, require customization , and that sets React Joyride apart from React Tour. The example project we’ll make demands some creativity and customization — hence, we’ll go with React Joyride.

Building A Simple Product Tour

First, we’ll build a simple React tour using the props available to us in React Joyride. Next, we’ll use the useReducer hook to automate the tour’s processes.

Clone the “ standard-tour ” branch in the GitHub repository, or use the web page of your choice, as long as you’re able to follow along.

Install the packages by running npm install .

To start the app, run npm run start .

We’ll be covering the following steps:

• define the tour’s steps;
• enable a skip option in each step;
• change text labels on buttons and links;
• customize styles like button colors and text alignment.

Then, we’ll add some custom features:

• autostart the tour;
• start the tour manually (i.e. with a link or button click);
• hide the blinking beacon.

The props in React Joyride enable us to perform some basic functionality.

For this tutorial, we’ll build a product tour of the UI shown below:

Define The Tour’s Steps

To begin with, ensure that you’re targeting the particular classNames that will hold the content of the tour on the page — that is, according to whether you’ll be using your UI instead of the shopping-cart UI.

In the component folder, create a Tour.js file, and paste the following code into it. Also, ensure that the target classNames exist in your style sheet. Throughout this article, we’ll tweak the Tour.js component to suit the task at hand.

What we’ve done is simply define our tour’s steps by targeting the classNames that will form the bedrock of our content (the text). The content property is where we define the text that we want to see when the tour starts.

Enable Skip Option in Each Step

A skip option is important in cases where a user isn’t interested in a particular tour. We can add this feature by setting the showSkipButton prop to true , which will skip the remaining steps. Also, the continuous prop comes in handy when we need to show the Next button in each step.

Change Text Labels On Buttons And Links

To change the text labels on either buttons or links, we’ll use the locale prop. The locale prop has two objects, last and skip . We specified our last tour as the End tour , while skip is the Close tour .

Customize Styles, Like Button Colors And Text Alignment

The default color of buttons is red, and text alignment is always set right. Let’s apply some custom styles to change button colors and align text properly.

We see in our code that the styles prop is an object. It has other objects with unique values, including:

• tooltipContainer Its key is textAlign , and its value is left .
• buttonNext Its key is backgroundColor , and its value is green .
• buttonBack Its key is marginRight , and its value is 10px .
• locale Its keys are last and skip , and its values are End Tour and Close Tour , respectively.

The library exposes some props to use on our elements in place of the default elements, some of which are:

• beaconComponent
• tooltipComponent

We’ve seen how to create a product tour and how to customize it using the various props of Joyride.

The problem with props, however, is that, as your web app scales and you need more tours, you don’t just want to add steps and pass props to them. You want to be able to automate the process by ensuring that the process of managing tours is controlled by functions, and not merely props . Therefore, we’ll use useReducer to revamp the process of building tours.

In this segment, we are going to take control of the tour by using actions and events , made available by the library through a callback function.

To make this process feel less daunting, we’ll break this down into steps, enabling us to build the tour in chunks.

The complete source code is available, but I’d advise you to follow this guide, to understand how it works. All of our steps will be done in the Tour.js file in the components folder.

Define the Steps

In this first step, we define our steps by targeting the appropriate classNames and setting our content (text).

Define the Initial State

In this step, we define some important states , including:

• Set the run field to false , to ensure that the tour doesn’t start automatically.
• Set the continuous prop to true , because we want to show the button.
• stepIndex is the index number, which is set to 0 .
• The steps field is set to the TOUR_STEPS that we declared in step 1.
• The key field makes the tour re-render when the tour is restarted.

Manage The State With Reducer

In this step, using a switch statement when case is START , we return the state and set the run field to true . Also, when case is RESET , we return the state and set stepIndex to 0 . Next, when case is STOP , we set the run field to false , which will stop the tour. Lastly, when case is RESET , we restart the tour and create a new tour.

According to the events ( start , stop , and reset ), we’ve dispatched the proper state to manage the tour.

Listen to the Callback Changes and Dispatch State Changes

Using the exposed EVENTS , ACTIONS , and STATUS labels offered by React Joyride, we listen to the click events and then perform some conditional operations.

In this step, when the close or skip button is clicked, we close the tour. Otherwise, if the next or back button is clicked, we check whether the target element is active on the page. If the target element is active, then we go to that step. Otherwise, we find the next-step target and iterate.

Autostart the Tour With useEffect

In this step, the tour is auto-started when the page loads or when the component is mounted, using the useEffect hook.

Trigger The Start Button

The function in this last step starts the tour when the start button is clicked, just in case the user wishes to view the tour again. Right now, our app is set up so that the tour will be shown every time the user refreshes the page.

Here’s the final code for the tour functionality in Tour.js :

We’ve seen how to build a product tour in a web UI with React. We’ve also covered some guidelines for making product tours effective.

Now, you can experiment with the React Joyride library and come up with something awesome in your next web app. I would love to hear your views in the comments section below.

• Documentation , React Joyride
• “ Seven Exceptional Product Tours, and the Best Practices They Teach Us ”, Morgan Brown, Telepathy
• “ The Ultimate Guide to Product Tours and Walkthroughs ”, Margaret Kelsey, Appcues

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Building a VR app with React 360

As a tech head, you’re probably aware of virtual reality and its various applications. Video games, web and mobile apps, and more can reap the benefits of VR’s amazing features.

If your next development goal is creating VR apps and you’re familiar with the React ecosystem, you’re in luck. You can now develop amazing VR experiences using React 360 and JavaScript.

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to develop a simple and interactive React virtual reality application using React 360. By the end, you should be ready to build your first VR app in React.

We’ll cover the following:

What is React 360?

Installing react 360, adding background assets, vr interactions, adding immersive sounds, running your react vr application.

React 360 is a library that utilizes a lot of React Native functionality to create virtual reality apps that run in your web browser. It uses Three.js for rendering and comes as an npm package. By combining modern APIs such as WebGL and WebVR with the declarative power of React, React 360 helps simplify the process of creating cross-platform VR experiences.

Learning how to use React 360 is a great way to kickstart your VR development career. In this tutorial, we’ll cover all the basics to help you get started using React 360.

First and foremost, you need to install the React 360 CLI . This will give you access to all the necessary commands to assist you in developing a virtual reality application.

Now, go to the desired folder through the command terminal and run the following command:

This is a one-time install, so you don’t have to do this every time. The benefit of being in the project folder is that it makes the following step easier.

After installation, create a new project called my-project (creative, right?) and type:

You have successfully created your first virtual reality application with React 360.

To view the app in your browser, navigate to the my-project folder via the terminal and then run npm start . This will guide you to the destination in the browser. Alternatively, you can access the output by following http://localhost:8081/index.html .

Here’s what the app should look like:

Now that you have the app up and running, let’s talk about the code in detail. Two important files we’ll be working with are client.js and index.js . The index.js file consists of four parts:

• Component Registry

We’re importing React to use its class functionality. We’ll gather some parts from React 360 to build a VR environment:

The class syntax and components are quite similar to React and React Native, respectively. The View component allows you to render various aspects of the VR world and, if you want, to play with the look and feel. The Style attribute and StyleSheet will help you do that. There are numerous resemblances to React Native and CSS functionality here.

When it comes to the Text component, you can create dynamic text to display all kinds of data for the user. In the end, the class needs to be registered to the client for rendering.

You’ll notice that the init function in the client.js file makes a new instance for your project and then utilizes the class from the index.js file to assign a render method to this project. After that, the project environment is applied to a panoramic image, followed by the execution of the init function.

Those are the basics of React 360 functionality, and you’re good to go with your first VR app development. Now that you know how a React VR app is made, let’s go through some steps to customize it.

You can apply any panoramic image to the VR background using React 360. For this tutorial, we’re using a Simmes free image; you can use any image you like.

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To use a panoramic image for the background, add the desired image to the static_assets folder. This folder contains all the static assets, such as pictures, music, and models, and React 360 searches for them here.

Use the command below to update the background:

One of the most important and engaging aspects of any application is interaction. Without interaction, an app is lifeless. You can add this vital functionality to your React VR app by adding the VrButton component to the index.js files’ imports as follows:

Next, add a counter to record the number of clicks. Start by setting the click count to zero:

The next step is to write an increment function:

In the end, we’ll render the VrButton like so:

You’ve successfully set up the button and you can now see the number of people who visit your VR world.

Not all apps you create will require sound. However, when it comes to games, videos, and other immersive experiences, sounds are essential.

To add sound to our VR app, we need to fetch a few more things from React 360.

The next step is to import the AudioModule from NativeModules and set a new const :

Once the new const is set, we can add specific functionality to the way the sound plays. For example, we can make it start playing upon the click of the button and stop when the button is clicked again.

To make this work, we’ll add a Boolean value to the state:

Finally, we’ll write another function to manage the way sound plays:

Once executed, this function upgrades the playSound state, which is set to false . The way the sound plays will depend on the value assigned to playSound . To make it play, an audio instance has to be created via the createAudio component.

Once created, you can play the audio via the assigned name. This only occurs when playSound is set to true . The sound stops playing when it is false . That’s why we make a new instance every time playSound is true .

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We’ll now create a button to start and stop playing the sound. Here’s what the code will look like:

Your VR app is now complete! Let’s run the application to see how it looks.

You can view the app via the run npm start command. Your first React VR app, called “My Project,” should contain the background that you chose and two buttons. One button controls the audio and the other keeps track of the number of users who visit the application.

You can now invite your friends and family to play with your new VR app and brainstorm new ideas for the app with fellow programmers. The possibilities are endless.

I hope this tutorial helped you understand React 360 a little better.

Tell us about your experience with React 360. What do you think is the best way to create VR apps? We would love to hear from you.

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As far as I know, React 360 is no longer being maintained and is essentially dead. There’s been no updates since 2018. I’m not sure if it’s advisable to recommend using this library

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• 2-hour tour $87:  10 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with hotel pick-up and drop-off
• 3-hour tour $137:  20 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with Russian lunch in beautifully-decorated Metro Diner + hotel pick-up and drop off. 
• Metro pass is included in the price of both tours.

Highlight of Metro Tour

• Visit 10 must-see stations of Moscow metro on 2-hr tour and 20 Metro stations on 3-hr tour, including grand Komsomolskaya station with its distinctive Baroque décor, aristocratic Mayakovskaya station with Soviet mosaics, legendary Revolution Square station with 72 bronze sculptures and more!
• Explore Museum of Moscow Metro and learn a ton of technical and historical facts;
• Listen to the secrets about the Metro-2, a secret line supposedly used by the government and KGB;
• Experience a selection of most striking features of Moscow Metro hidden from most tourists and even locals;
• Discover the underground treasure of Russian Soviet past – from mosaics to bronzes, paintings, marble arches, stained glass and even paleontological elements;
• Learn fun stories and myths about Coffee Ring, Zodiac signs of Moscow Metro and more;
• Admire Soviet-era architecture of pre- and post- World War II perious;
• Enjoy panoramic views of Sparrow Hills from Luzhniki Metro Bridge – MetroMost, the only station of Moscow Metro located over water and the highest station above ground level;
• If lucky, catch a unique «Aquarelle Train» – a wheeled picture gallery, brightly painted with images of peony, chrysanthemums, daisies, sunflowers and each car unit is unique;
• Become an expert at navigating the legendary Moscow Metro system;
• Have fun time with a very friendly local;
• + Atmospheric Metro lunch in Moscow’s the only Metro Diner (included in a 3-hr tour)

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According to some sources, the total length of Metro-2 reaches over 150 kilometers.

The Museum was opened on Sportivnaya metro station on November 6, 1967. It features the most interesting models of trains and stations.

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According to some astrologers, each of the 12 stops of the Moscow Ring Line corresponds to a particular sign of the zodiac and divides the city into astrological sector.

Astrologers believe that being in a particular zadiac sector of Moscow for a long time, you attract certain energy and events into your life.

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Red marble walls of some of the Metro stations hide in themselves petrified inhabitants of ancient seas. Try and find some!

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LAS VEGAS — “Step into space, alter my place.” Phish drummer Jon Fishman’s vocal turn in “Taste” encapsulated the Sphere experience for both the band and 18,600 lucky fans at Saturday’s third of four shows at the mammoth multimedia orb that’s become a hot new landmark next to the Vegas strip.

As he sang those words, hieroglyphic panels depicting cover art from old Live Phish CDs circled a 3D lattice crown in counter-rotation, rising several stories to the dome of Sphere’s 160,000-square-foot LED screen. And that was one of the night’s less-abstract visuals, in a space suggesting a skyscraper-size IMAX.

As only the second group to play the $2.3 billion venue, following U2′s 40-date christening, the Vermont-bred jam masters have perfected the conceptual four-night stand, tapping artistic teams that help realize the offbeat ambitions of the band steered by guitarist Trey Anastasio.

In the past, those hi-jinks peaked in late-night sets at its festivals (August’s Mondegreen in Delaware will be the band’s first since 2015), Halloween runs with full-album costumes from classic covers to the debut of alter-ego Kasvot Vaxt at Vegas’s MGM Grand, and New Year’s Eve punctuations at Madison Square Garden. Puppets and dancers graced a Broadway-styled staging of Anastasio’s college fantasy suite Gamehendge to cap 2023.

But Sphere provided another world. The guitarist spent nearly a year plotting with creative directors Abigail Rosen Holmes (who worked with Roger Waters and Talking Heads) and Jean Baptise Hardoin of Montreal’s Moment Factory. While U2 repeated its songs and imagery, the creative team devised four shows honoring Phish’s routine of playing different sets by doing the same with visuals, even using real-time technology to react to the quartet’s improvisational jaunts.

Sphere presents any band with a new challenge (Dead and Company will be next for dates into this summer), but a payoff of possibilities. Like the bottom of the Grand Canyon or the recent solar eclipse’s path of totality, it’s hard to truly convey Sphere’s scope to someone who hasn’t experienced it live.

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It’s largely a matter of scale. After opening Saturday’s show with squiggly lines bending heavenward for “Set Your Soul Free,” Phish took Sphere for a real test drive. Bubbles grew larger as they floated toward the audience packing the venue’s pitched tiers during “Tube,” until the song’s blues-rock coda snapped attention back to the music. The crisp, cyclical ascent of “Taste” also seemed overshadowed by 3D imagery, while “Sigma Oasis” displayed cloud trees like billowing cauliflower while a sea turtle and birds materialized out of the wispy sky. “You’re already there,” Anastasio sang, feeding the sense of imagination.

Yet the most mind-blowing package came in the new “Pillow Jets,” with its scrolling landscape of waving sprouts and impressionistic trees. Evoking “Avatar,” neon lights shot up the trunks to explode into feathery fireworks where leaves dissipated into the wind. But the band matched the intensity in an inspired prog-rock jam of heavy drum fills and thick waves of guitar.

But like U2, Phish knew it couldn’t keep a foot to the pedal. “Mountains in the Mist” struck a mood with simple literal imagery of fog-covered hills. Angular spindles seemed low-key in “Stash” but let focus shift to Sphere’s astounding sonic clarity. One could hear Fishman’s every stroke on his hi-hat cymbals or fans’ cued handclaps like it was a smaller room.

Bassist Mike Gordon ’s active, muscular injections fueled “Fuego” with a taut anchor to more meandering stretches. Sphere’s haptic seating let fans feel the bass even though Gordon wasn’t loud in the mix. And the sound literally bounced around the room from keyboardist Page McConnell’s synth patches. Phish relieved tension with crowd participation, as balloon letters drifted Scrabble-style into the prompt “Wooo” during “Twist.”

Sunday’s finale proved even stronger, the first set centered by an old-school pairing of “Ghost” (where towering robots with moving arms appeared within the screen for another jaw-dropping visual) and “The Divided Sky.”

Phish locked in for their final Sphere set, Anastasio particularly sharp as he energized the jams in a 35-minute “Down with Disease” and hard-charging “Piper,” while “Beneath a Sea of Stars” lent contemplation as star threads elevated to a black hole. The theme to “2001″ mimicked the band’s lighting pioneer Chris Kuroda’s roving spots but couldn’t match what he does with a larger rig on tour. That’ll be seen when Phish hits Xfinity Center for three July nights, leaving Sphere dreams behind until the probable next time.

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Tourist Guide into your React Components

From v1.9.1 styled-components it isn't bundled into the package and is required styled-components@^4 and react@^16.3 due to the use of createRef , so:

Add the Tour Component in your Application, passing the steps with the elements to highlight during the Tour .

accentColor

Change --reactour-accent (defaults to accentColor on IE) css custom prop to apply color in Helper , number, dots, etc

Type: string

Default: #007aff

badgeContent

Customize Badge content using current and total steps values

Content to be rendered inside the Helper

Type: node | elem

Custom class name to add to the Helper

closeWithMask

Close the Tour by clicking the Mask

Default: true

disableDotsNavigation

Disable interactivity with Dots navigation in Helper

disableInteraction

Disable the ability to click or intercat in any way with the Highlighted element

disableKeyboardNavigation

Disable all keyboard navigation (next and prev step) when true, disable only selected keys when array

Type: bool | array(['esc', 'right', 'left'])

getCurrentStep

Function triggered each time current step change

Programmatically change current step after the first render, when the value changes

Type: number

highlightedMaskClassName

Custom class name to add to the element which is the overlay for the target element when disableInteraction

inViewThreshold

Tolerance in pixels to add when calculating if an element is outside viewport to scroll into view

Required: true

lastStepNextButton

Change Next button in last step into a custom button to close the Tour

maskClassName

Custom class name to add to the Mask

Extra Space between in pixels between Highlighted element and Mask

Default: 10

Renders as next button navigation

Overrides default nextStep internal function

onAfterOpen

Do something after Tour is opened

onBeforeClose

Do something before Tour is closed

onRequestClose

Function to close the Tour

Renders as prev button navigation

Overrides default prevStep internal function

Beautify Helper and Mask with border-radius (in px)

scrollDuration

Smooth scroll duration when positioning the target element (in ms)

scrollOffset

Offset when positioning the target element after scroll to it

Default: a calculation to the center of the viewport

showButtons

Show/Hide Helper Navigation buttons

showCloseButton

Show/Hide Helper Close button

showNavigation

Show/Hide Helper Navigation Dots

showNavigationNumber

Show/Hide number when hovers on each Navigation Dot

Show/Hide Helper Number Badge

Starting step when Tour is open the first time

Array of elements to highligt with special info and props

Type: shape

Steps shape

Steps example.

Value to listen if a forced update is needed

updateDelay

Delay time when forcing update. Useful when there are known animation/transitions

disableFocusLock

Disable FocusLock component.

Default: false

To guarantee a cross browser behaviour we use body-scroll-lock .

Import the library import { disableBodyScroll, enableBodyScroll } from 'body-scroll-lock'

Create the event handlers disableBody = target => disableBodyScroll(target) enableBody = target => enableBodyScroll(target)

Then assign them into the Tour props <Tour {...props} onAfterOpen={this.disableBody} onBeforeClose={this.enableBody} />

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The day all Swifties have been waiting for has finally arrived. Taylor Swift's 15th album, " The Tortured Poets Department ," dropped at 11 p.m. CST Thursday night.

Swift, chairman of the "Tortured Poets Department," did not disappoint.

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'It's a 2 a.m. surprise'

The Eras Tour singer barely gave fans time to process TTPD before releasing an additional 15 songs under "TTPD: The Anthology."

"It's a 2 a.m. surprise," Swift wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. The double album's new tracks went live at 1 a.m. CST early Friday morning.

The secret double album's new tracks include:

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• "The Prophecy"
• "Cassandra"
• "The Bolter"
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The Eras Tour singer joined Threads at midnight, which shares parent company Meta with Facebook and Instagram.

As part of the week leading up to the announcement, Swift worked behind the scenes with Threads to create a countdown when users pulled down on her Instagram page. The interface connected them to pre-follow the singer. At the stroke of 12 a.m., a new pull-down countdown revealed two hours.

TTPD's track titles are brutal. Fans speculated the album was about Swift’s six-year relationship with English actor Joe Alwyn and their breakup. Both stars kept the relationship out of the public eye. The back of the first version of the album reads, “I love you, it’s ruining me,” serving as a dagger-to-the-chest harbinger.

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Swifties are already busy making connections between some "TTPD" lyrics and lyrics in previous albums.

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Touring the Top 10 Moscow Metro Stations

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Komsomolskaya metro station looks like a museum. It has vaulted ceilings and baroque decor.

Hidden underground, in the heart of Moscow, are historical and architectural treasures of Russia. These are Soviet-era creations – the metro stations of Moscow.

Our guide Maria introduced these elaborate metro stations as “the palaces for the people.” Built between 1937 and 1955, each station holds its own history and stories. Stalin had the idea of building beautiful underground spaces that the masses could enjoy. They would look like museums, art centers, concert halls, palaces and churches. Each would have a different theme. None would be alike.

The two-hour private tour was with a former Intourist tour guide named Maria. Maria lived in Moscow all her life and through the communist era of 60s to 90s. She has been a tour guide for more than 30 years. Being in her 60s, she moved rather quickly for her age. We traveled and crammed with Maria and other Muscovites on the metro to visit 10 different metro stations.

Arrow showing the direction of metro line 1 and 2

Moscow subways are very clean

To Maria, every street, metro and building told a story. I couldn’t keep up with her stories. I don’t remember most of what she said because I was just thrilled being in Moscow.   Added to that, she spilled out so many Russian words and names, which to one who can’t read Cyrillic, sounded so foreign and could be easily forgotten.

The metro tour was the first part of our all day tour of Moscow with Maria. Here are the stations we visited:

1. Komsomolskaya Metro Station  is the most beautiful of them all. Painted yellow and decorated with chandeliers, gold leaves and semi precious stones, the station looks like a stately museum. And possibly decorated like a palace. I saw Komsomolskaya first, before the rest of the stations upon arrival in Moscow by train from St. Petersburg.

2. Revolution Square Metro Station (Ploshchad Revolyutsii) has marble arches and 72 bronze sculptures designed by Alexey Dushkin. The marble arches are flanked by the bronze sculptures. If you look closely you will see passersby touching the bronze dog's nose. Legend has it that good luck comes to those who touch the dog's nose.

Touch the dog's nose for good luck. At the Revolution Square station

Revolution Square Metro Station

3. Arbatskaya Metro Station served as a shelter during the Soviet-era. It is one of the largest and the deepest metro stations in Moscow.

Arbatskaya Metro Station

4. Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Metro Station was built in 1935 and named after the Russian State Library. It is located near the library and has a big mosaic portrait of Lenin and yellow ceramic tiles on the track walls.

Lenin's portrait at the Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Metro Station

5. Kievskaya Metro Station was one of the first to be completed in Moscow. Named after the capital city of Ukraine by Kiev-born, Nikita Khruschev, Stalin's successor.

Kievskaya Metro Station

6. Novoslobodskaya Metro Station  was built in 1952. It has 32 stained glass murals with brass borders.

Novoslobodskaya metro station

7. Kurskaya Metro Station was one of the first few to be built in Moscow in 1938. It has ceiling panels and artwork showing Soviet leadership, Soviet lifestyle and political power. It has a dome with patriotic slogans decorated with red stars representing the Soviet's World War II Hall of Fame. Kurskaya Metro Station is a must-visit station in Moscow.

Ceiling panel and artworks at Kurskaya Metro Station

8. Mayakovskaya Metro Station built in 1938. It was named after Russian poet Vladmir Mayakovsky. This is one of the most beautiful metro stations in the world with 34 mosaics painted by Alexander Deyneka.

Mayakovskaya station

One of the over 30 ceiling mosaics in Mayakovskaya metro station

9. Belorusskaya Metro Station is named after the people of Belarus. In the picture below, there are statues of 3 members of the Partisan Resistance in Belarus during World War II. The statues were sculpted by Sergei Orlov, S. Rabinovich and I. Slonim.

10. Teatralnaya Metro Station (Theatre Metro Station) is located near the Bolshoi Theatre.

Teatralnaya Metro Station decorated with porcelain figures .

Taking the metro's escalator at the end of the tour with Maria the tour guide.

Have you visited the Moscow Metro? Leave your comment below.

January 15, 2017 at 8:17 am

An excellent read! Thanks for much for sharing the Russian metro system with us. We're heading to Moscow in April and exploring the metro stations were on our list and after reading your post, I'm even more excited to go visit them. Thanks again 🙂

December 6, 2017 at 10:45 pm

Hi, do you remember which tour company you contacted for this tour?

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On this tour you take in some of Moscow's most important and highly decorated stations. Carrying up to 7 million passengers a day and covering almost the entire city, the Moscow Metro is one of the most extensive mass transit systems in the world. It's famous for the fine examples of social-realism which decorate many of its stations.

Visit some of the most important stations and get the chance to admire spectacular baroque-style ceilings, marble statues, busts of Communist heroes, stained glass windows, and ceiling mosaics depicting the bright Soviet future. Visit the most remarkable stations like Komsomolskaya, Kurskaya, Kievskaya and others, with the experienced guide who will bring you a full insight into their fascinating history.

• Tour of Moscow's Metro system visiting beautifully decorated key stations on the network.
• System that carries more than 7 million passengers per day
• Views of the most opulently designed tunnels & platforms
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If you wonder why the Moscow metro is considered one the most beautiful in the world, this tour is made for you!

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Tourist Guide into your React Components

Install @reactour/tour (opens in a new tab)

1. add the tourprovider.

This should be at the root of your Application, passing the steps of the elements to highlight during the Tour.

2. Control the Tour

Then somewhere down the Application tree, control the Tour using useTour hook.