p5.js

p5.js is a client-side JS platform that empowers artists, designers, students, and anyone to learn to code and express themselves creatively on the web. It is based on the core principles of Processing. http://twitter.com/p5xjs — (by processing)

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p5.js reviews and mentions

Posts with mentions or reviews of p5.js. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-30.
  • P5.js: Online Canvas Programming
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2024
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  • Turbo Pascal Turns 40
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Nov 2023
    Processing (P5) had this: you can select any string of text in its IDE anl search for it in the docs, and if it's one of the built-in functions or constants it will open the associated static html page that came installed with the software, so no internet nor server required. And despite being offline you can still navigate the docs too. This feels a lost basic skill in static site generation these days.

    It was the only creative coding framework that had complete, offline documentation like that at the time I might add. OpenFrameworks is still mostly autogenerated stubs for example.

    IMO it was one of the things that gave Processing an edge in educational contexts over all alternatives. I was pretty sad to see p5.js not fully continue that tradition and require that you go online to read the docs, and that it's not a static website but that text is rendered with javascript when you open it (still complete and with examples though).

    https://processing.org/

    https://p5js.org/

  • My Google Play Developer account has been terminated
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Oct 2023
    I thought it could be funny to use the javascript version of it https://p5js.org/ in a web page and then wrap it in a Unity app, since Unity was and is the environment I use for making apps.
  • Repetition can make you loopy!: Intro to JavaScript Loops
    1 project | dev.to | 14 Aug 2023
    In this last section, I'll be creating some visual examples to show how helpful loops can be. I'll be using p5js, a JavaScript library with functionality for creative coding. That being said, I'll try to give a condensed version of the functions being utilized in the following examples.
  • G9.js: Automatically Interactive Graphics
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Aug 2023
    I was curious too, took a little bit of digging :)

    "the original domain of [P]rocessing was proce55ing.net, so people used to sometimes refer to processing as proce55ing or P5 or p5 for short. they still do sometimes. p5.js is a reference to that."

    from https://github.com/processing/p5.js/issues/2443

  • [OC] Monthly Performance of the S&P 500: 94 Years in 1 Video.
    1 project | /r/dataisbeautiful | 27 Jun 2023
    Sketch.js - https://p5js.org/
  • Ask HN: How to teach a kid of 15 Linux and programming
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jun 2023
    > how do I get him learning programming in a fun way?

    Processing / P5.js can be pretty fun to learn. You use a real programming language to create art and animations. With little code you can get a circle on the screen, then making it move, then following your mouse, then adding other shapes, then changing colour depending on some event… It’s conductive to experimentation and a way to gradually introduce concepts.

    https://processing.org/

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    https://thecodingtrain.com/

  • [OC] I created a simple, free waveform and genre visualizer for your top ten Spotify songs, a few samples below and link to the tool in the comments!
    1 project | /r/dataisbeautiful | 8 Jun 2023
    Then I used p5js to create the 'art' itself, really user friendly coding framework with lots of resources online! If you want to get into coding, that is a really great entry point with Daniel Schiffman's coding train videos on YT!
  • Different texture types
    1 project | /r/p5js | 28 May 2023
    Posted an issue for it that u guys can check out here: https://github.com/processing/p5.js/issues/6166
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processing/p5.js is an open source project licensed under GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of p5.js is JavaScript.


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