JavaScript Animations

Open-source JavaScript projects categorized as Animations

Top 23 JavaScript Animation Projects

  1. anime.js

    JavaScript animation engine

    Project mention: Clock playback controls | dev.to | 2025-04-22

    Made with anime.js v4 (https://animejs.com)

  2. Civic Auth

    Auth in Less Than 5 Minutes. Civic Auth comes with multiple SSO options, optional embedded wallets, and user management — all implemented with just a few lines of code. Start building today.

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  3. Awesome-Design-Tools

    The best design tools and plugins for everything 👉

  4. particles.js

    A lightweight JavaScript library for creating particles

    Project mention: Relax while watching bouncing particles making connections when they get closer | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-09

    Neat. This is a popular visualization. It's been the ParticlesJS demo for quite some time now:

    https://vincentgarreau.com/particles.js/

    There are many like it, but this one is yours and its pretty cool.

  5. GreenSock-JS

    GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform), a JavaScript animation library for the modern web

    Project mention: Top 10 JavaScript Animation Libraries in 2025 | dev.to | 2025-03-10

    Check GSAP 🔥

  6. velocity

    Accelerated JavaScript animation.

    Project mention: Mastering Web Animation with JavaScript Libraries: A Comprehensive Guide | dev.to | 2024-05-09

    Repository: Velocity.js on GitHub

  7. react-bits

    An open source collection of animated, interactive & fully customizable React components for building stunning, memorable user interfaces. (by DavidHDev)

    Project mention: Introducing React Bits - A Library of Beautifully Animated React UI Components | dev.to | 2025-01-08

    GitHub: https://github.com/DavidHDev/react-bits

  8. jquery.transit

    Super-smooth CSS3 transformations and transitions for jQuery

  9. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

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  10. vanta

    Animated 3D backgrounds for your website

  11. react-burger-menu

    :hamburger: An off-canvas sidebar component with a collection of effects and styles using CSS transitions and SVG path animations

    Project mention: Slide into Style: 10 Must-Have React Sidebar NPM Packages | dev.to | 2024-10-22

    NPM: react-burger-menu

  12. move.js

    CSS3 backed JavaScript animation framework

  13. spine-runtimes

    2D skeletal animation runtimes for Spine.

    Project mention: Spine – 2D skeletal animation for games, with physical secondary motions | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-19

    That's not what you wrote here

    https://github.com/EsotericSoftware/spine-runtimes/issues/20...

  14. textillate

    A jquery plugin for CSS3 text animations.

  15. Vizzu

    Library for animated data visualizations and data stories.

    Project mention: Show HN: Embedded our open-source charting lib into a no-code storytelling tool | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-06-27
  16. typical

    Animated typing in ~400 bytes 🐡 of JavaScript

  17. react-portfolio-template

    Modern React Portfolio Template (FREE)

  18. highway

    Highway - A Modern Javascript Transitions Manager (by Dogstudio)

  19. react-typist

    Typing animations with React

  20. react-native-animated-charts

    Set of components and helpers for building complex and beautifully animated charts

  21. Odoo

    Javascript and SVG odometer effect library with motion blur

  22. motus

    Animation library that mimics CSS keyframes when scrolling.

  23. react

    React tsParticles official component (by tsparticles)

  24. animatelo

    Animatelo is a bunch of cool, fun, and cross-browser animations for you to use in your projects. This is a porting to Web Animation API of the fabulous animate.css project.

  25. web-portfolio

    Personal portfolio website made with the React

  26. CodeRabbit

    CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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JavaScript Animations related posts

  • Clock playback controls

    1 project | dev.to | 22 Apr 2025
  • ✨"Day 1 with Anime.js — Breathing Life into a Static Webpage"

    1 project | dev.to | 17 Apr 2025
  • Anime JS , a JavaScript animation library

    2 projects | dev.to | 12 Apr 2025
  • Analysis of Key Technical Principles for a Visual Drag-and-Drop Component Library

    5 projects | dev.to | 7 Apr 2025
  • Anime.js v4: JavaScript animation engine

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Apr 2025
  • Anime.js v4

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Apr 2025
  • AnimeJs v4 Is Here

    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Apr 2025
  • A note from our sponsor - InfluxDB
    influxdata.com | 25 Apr 2025
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Index

What are some of the best open-source Animation projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 anime.js 58,941
2 Awesome-Design-Tools 35,681
3 particles.js 29,413
4 GreenSock-JS 20,632
5 velocity 17,297
6 react-bits 10,981
7 jquery.transit 7,277
8 vanta 5,884
9 react-burger-menu 5,095
10 move.js 4,715
11 spine-runtimes 4,623
12 textillate 3,660
13 Vizzu 1,963
14 typical 1,569
15 react-portfolio-template 1,513
16 highway 1,433
17 react-typist 1,403
18 react-native-animated-charts 940
19 Odoo 821
20 motus 628
21 react 496
22 animatelo 489
23 web-portfolio 347

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