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Shepherd.js vs Showdown: What are the differences?

Shepherd.js: Guide your users through a tour of your app. Shepherd is a JavaScript library that allows you to easily create site tours to guide users through your app or website. It leverages Tippy.js, another open source library, to render dialogs for each tour "step"; Showdown: JavaScript port of Markdown. Showdown lets you add in-browser preview to existing Markdown apps. Any app that accepts HTML input can now be made to speak Markdown by modifying the input pages's HTML.

Shepherd.js and Showdown can be primarily classified as "Javascript Utilities & Libraries" tools.

Shepherd.js and Showdown are both open source tools. It seems that Showdown with 9.36K GitHub stars and 1.29K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Shepherd.js with 7.75K GitHub stars and 452 GitHub forks.

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    What is Shepherd.js?

    Shepherd is a JavaScript library that allows you to easily create site tours to guide users through your app or website. It leverages Tippy.js, another open source library, to render dialogs for each tour "step".

    What is Showdown?

    Showdown lets you add in-browser preview to existing Markdown apps. Any app that accepts HTML input can now be made to speak Markdown by modifying the input pages's HTML

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    What are some alternatives to Shepherd.js and Showdown?
    Modernizr
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    Modernizr
    It’s a collection of superfast tests or detects as we like to call them which run as your web page loads, then you can use the results to tailor the experience to the user. It tells you what HTML, CSS and JavaScript features the user’s browser has to offer.
    Lodash
    A JavaScript utility library delivering consistency, modularity, performance, & extras. It provides utility functions for common programming tasks using the functional programming paradigm.
    fancybox
    It is a tool that offers a nice and elegant way to add zooming functionality for images, html content and multi-media on your webpages. It is built on the top of the popular JavaScript framework jQuery and is both easy to implement and a snap to customize.
    Moment.js
    A javascript date library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates.
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