Getting Started

Prerequisites

Before you start building guides with GuideSail, make sure you have the following.

To build guides

• Google Chrome — the GuideSail Builder is a Chrome extension and requires Chrome.
• A GuideSail account — free to create at getguidesail.com. You can start building a guide without an account, but you need one to save and publish.
• Your web app open in Chrome — guides are built on top of your actual app, so have it running and accessible in your browser.

To display guides to your users

• Access to your app's codebase — you'll need to add a small script (NPM package or JS snippet) to your app once, so your users can see the guides you build.

You don't need to be a developer to build guides. But you or a developer on your team will need to add the snippet to your app's code one time before guides can go live.

Next steps

Once you have these ready, follow the [[Quick Start]] guide to build and publish your first guide.