Changelogs for Engineering Teams
Engineering and Development teams build and maintain the product. While they are not the primary creators of onboarding content, they are responsible for integrating adoption tools, and they benefit directly when product and success teams can self-serve instead of filing engineering requests for every tooltip or walkthrough. A well-integrated digital adoption tool reduces the engineering tax of in-app guidance.
Challenges Engineering Teams Face
Constant requests from product and marketing to build one-off tooltips, modals, and onboarding flows
Custom onboarding code is brittle, hard to maintain, and creates tech debt that compounds over time
Every copy change or flow tweak to in-app guidance requires a code change, review, and deploy cycle
Third-party scripts that degrade page performance or conflict with the existing frontend framework
Goals Produktly Helps Achieve
Minimize engineering time spent on non-core onboarding and guidance features
Provide a self-service tool so non-technical teams stop filing tickets for tooltip changes
Ensure any third-party adoption tool has minimal performance impact and does not conflict with the app
Maintain clean architecture by offloading in-app guidance to a dedicated system rather than scattering it through the codebase
How Changelogs Empowers Engineering Teams
One-time integration, zero ongoing maintenance
- Add a lightweight SDK snippet once and product, success, and marketing teams manage all tours, tips, and surveys independently from that point forward.
Eliminate custom onboarding code
- Replace brittle, hand-coded tooltip and modal logic with a managed system that handles targeting, rendering, and analytics without adding to your tech debt.
Minimal performance footprint
- The SDK is designed to load asynchronously and render in isolation, avoiding layout shifts, bundle bloat, or conflicts with your React, Vue, or Angular application.
API and event integration
- Use the JavaScript API to trigger tours programmatically, pass custom user attributes for targeting, and forward events to your analytics pipeline for unified tracking.
Free up sprint capacity for core features
- Every onboarding request that product or success can handle themselves is a ticket that never enters your backlog, keeping engineering focused on high-impact technical work.
A Day with Produktly as a Developer
A developer receives a request to add a tooltip explaining a new dashboard widget. Instead of writing custom code, they point the requester to the Produktly Chrome extension and the tour is live within the hour without a single line of code committed. During sprint planning, the team notices onboarding-related tickets have dropped to near zero since the SDK integration three months ago, freeing up capacity for the API rewrite they have been postponing.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the Produktly SDK integrate with single-page applications?
The SDK is framework-agnostic and works with React, Vue, Angular, and vanilla JavaScript SPAs. It observes DOM changes automatically so it detects route transitions and dynamically rendered elements without requiring manual lifecycle hooks. Integration is a single script tag or npm package with an initialization call.
What is the performance impact of the SDK?
The SDK loads asynchronously and does not block page rendering. It uses an iframe-based rendering approach for tour cards, which isolates its styles and DOM from your application. The script is lightweight and cached aggressively, typically adding negligible overhead to page load times.
Can developers trigger tours programmatically via an API?
Yes. The JavaScript API exposes methods to start specific tours, track custom events, and pass user attributes. This lets you trigger tours based on application state or custom logic while still letting non-technical teammates manage the tour content through the visual builder.
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