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Introduction

Today I would like to give examples of good GitHub repositories that will help you implement complex animations, as well as useful functions in your projects.

So let's get started

1. Lottie-Web/Bodymovin

GitHub logo airbnb / lottie-web

Render After Effects animations natively on Web, Android and iOS, and React Native. http://airbnb.io/lottie/

Lottie for Web, Android, iOS, React Native, and Windows

Lottie is a mobile library for Web, and iOS that parses Adobe After Effects animations exported as json with Bodymovin and renders them natively on mobile!

For the first time, designers can create and ship beautiful animations without an engineer painstakingly recreating it by hand. They say a picture is worth 1,000 words so here are 13,000:

View documentation, FAQ, help, examples, and more at airbnb.io/lottie

Example1

Example2

Example3

Community

Example4

Plugin installation

Option 1 (Recommended):

Download it from from aescripts + aeplugins: http://aescripts.com/bodymovin/

Option 2:

Or get it from the adobe store https://creative.adobe.com/addons/products/12557 CC 2014 and up.

Other installation options:

Option 3:

  • download the ZIP from the repo.
  • Extract content and get the .zxp file from '/build/extension'
  • Use the ZXP installer from aescripts.com.

Option 4:

  • Close After Effects

  • Extract the zipped file on build/extension/bodymovin.zxp to the adobe CEP folder:
    WINDOWS:
    C:\Program Files

I want to start with my favorite repository. With this library, you can export the animation you created from Adobe After Effects directly to your website.

Examples:
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2. Parallax.js

GitHub logo wagerfield / parallax

Parallax Engine that reacts to the orientation of a smart device

Parallax.js

CDNJS

Parallax Engine that reacts to the orientation of a smart device. Where no gyroscope or motion detection hardware is available, the position of the cursor is used instead.

Check out the demo to see it in action!

Table of Contents

1. Getting started

1.1 Installation

1.1 a) Using the CDN

  1. Add <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/parallax/3.1.0/parallax.min.js"></script> to your markup
  2. Done!

Many thanks to the fine folks over at cdnjs for hosting our library.

1.1 b) Beginners

  1. Head over to the releases Section
  2. Download compiled.zip from the latest release
  3. Extract the ZIP archive and locate the parallax.js and parallax.min.js files
    • Use parallax.js if you want to snoop around in the code
    • Use…

With this library, you can create a beautiful parallax effect that you can control with the mouse movement. You can also adjust the speed of moving objects.

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3. Flat Surface Shader [FSS]

GitHub logo wagerfield / flat-surface-shader

Flat Surface Shader for rendering illuminated triangles

Flat Surface Shader [FSS]

Simple, lightweight Flat Surface Shader written in JavaScript for rendering lit Triangles to a number of contexts. Currently there is support for WebGL, Canvas 2D and SVG. Check out this demo to see it in action.

Understanding Lighting

Simply put, FSS uses the Lambertian Reflectance model to calculate the color of a Triangle based on an array of Light sources within a Scene.

Light

A Light is composed of a 3D position Vector and 2 Color objects defining its ambient & diffuse emissions. These color channels interact with the Material of a Mesh to calculate the color of a Triangle.

Triangle

A Triangle is constructed from 3 Vertices which each define the x, y and z coordinates of a corner. Based on these 3 Vertices, a forth 3D Vector is automatically derived at the center of the Triangle – this is…

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4. Hover.css

GitHub logo IanLunn / Hover

A collection of CSS3 powered hover effects to be applied to links, buttons, logos, SVG, featured images and so on. Easily apply to your own elements, modify or just use for inspiration. Available in CSS, Sass, and LESS.

Hover.css

Buy Me A Coffee

A collection of CSS3 powered hover effects to be applied to links, buttons, logos, SVG, featured images and so on. Easily apply to your own elements, modify or just use for inspiration. Available in CSS, Sass, and LESS.

Demo | Tutorial

Contents

Download/Install

  • NPM: npm install hover.css --save
  • Bower: bower install hover --save
  • Download Zip

How To Use

Hover.css can be used in a number of ways; either copy and paste the effect you'd like to use in your own stylesheet or reference the stylesheet. Then just add the class name of the effect to the element you'd…

5. Video.js Markers

GitHub logo spchuang / videojs-markers

Displays customizable markers upon progress bars of videojs players

Not actively maintained anymore.

Video.js Markers

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A plugin that displays customizable markers upon progress bars of the video with Video.js. This could be used to show video breaks and show overlaid text on the video when playback reaches the specific break point.

Demo and Documentation

See here

JSBin Demo can be found here

Features

  • Display markers on progress bar, with hover-over tooltips
  • Display break overlays
  • Flexible styling
  • Support dynamically adding and removing markers

Download

  • Download master with git -- git clone git@github.com:spchuang/videojs-markers.git

  • Download zip/tar files for newest release

  • Download through bower -- bower install videojs-markers

Quick Start

Add the 'videojs.markers.js' plugin and stylesheet after including videojs script

<link href="http://vjs.zencdn.net/4.2/video-js.css" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="videojs.markers.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="http://vjs.zencdn.net/4.2/video.js"></script>
<script src='../src/videojs.markers.js'></script>

Basic usage: display break markers in the video.

To add breaks in the video, simply add a new time (in seconds) in the list of breaks option.

// initialize video.js
var video

With this plugin, you can place the necessary marks on the video that is present on your site, so that you can easily switch to the time codes you need.

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6. Magic Grid

GitHub logo e-oj / Magic-Grid

A simple, lightweight Javascript library for dynamic grid layouts.

MIT License Downloads

Buy Me A Coffee

Magic Grid Tweet

A simple, lightweight Javascript library for dynamic grid layouts.

Creating a dynamic grid layout has never been easier. With Magic Grid, all you have to do is specify a container and listen for changes. A few other configuration options are available for convenience but it's all very simple. Check it out live on JSFIDDLE. You can read about the implementation details on CodeBurst.

Note: Every item in the grid must have the same width.

Sample Usage

demo

Why not CSS Grid?

This question is addressed in the article:

Implementing a grid layout can quickly turn into a tricky task. If you have grid items that are always the same height, then you can probably make do with a Flexbox grid or some other CSS grid implementation. However, if you’re dealing with user-generated content, chances are, you don’t have the luxury of equal height components. One longer…

This library will help you create an adaptive grid, where you do not have to create separate @media styles. Just specify the container and that's it.

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7. Vue/React Content Loader

GitHub logo egoist / vue-content-loader

SVG component to create placeholder loading, like Facebook cards loading.

vue-content-loader

NPM version NPM downloads CircleCI

SVG component to create placeholder loading, like Facebook cards loading.

preview

Features

This is a Vue port for react-content-loader.

  • Completely customizable: you can change the colors, speed and sizes.
  • Create your own loading: use the online tool to create your custom loader easily.
  • You can use it right now: there are a lot of presets already.
  • Performance
    • Tree-shakable and highly optimized bundle.
    • Pure SVG, so it's works without any javascript, canvas, etc.
    • Pure functional components.

Install

⚠️ The latest version is compatible with Vue 3 only. For Vue 2 & Nuxt 2, use vue-content-loader@^0.2 instead.

With npm:

npm i vue-content-loader
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Or with yarn:

yarn add vue-content-loader
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CDN: UNPKG | jsDelivr (available as window.contentLoaders)

Usage

👀👉 Demo: CodeSandbox

<template&gt
  <content-loader></content-loader>
</template>

<script>
import { ContentLoader } from 'vue-content-loader'

export default {
  components: {
    ContentLoader,
  },
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SVG component to create placeholder loading, like Facebook cards loading.

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Version for React.js:

GitHub logo danilowoz / react-content-loader

⚪ SVG-Powered component to easily create skeleton loadings.

react-content-loader

Example's react-content-loader

SVG-Powered component to easily create placeholder loadings (like Facebook's cards loading).

Features

  • ⚙️ Customizable: Feel free to change the colors, speed, sizes, and even RTL;
  • 👌 Plug and play: with many presets to use, see the examples;
  • ✏️ DIY: use the create-content-loader to create your own custom loaders easily;
  • 📱 React Native support: same API, as same powerful features;
  • ⚛️ Really lightweight: less than 2kB and 0 dependencies for web version;

Index

Getting Started

npm i react-content-loader --save
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yarn add react-content-loader
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For React Native

npm i react-content-loader react-native-svg --save
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yarn add react-content-loader react-native-svg
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CDN from JSDELIVR

Usage

There are two ways to use it:

1. Presets, see the examples:

import ContentLoader, { Facebook } from 'react-content-loader'
const MyLoader = () => <ContentLoader />
const MyFacebookLoader = () => <Facebook /
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8. React Image Gallery

GitHub logo xiaolin / react-image-gallery

React carousel image gallery component with thumbnail support 🖼

React Image Gallery

npm version Download Count Bundle size

Live Demo (try it on mobile for swipe support)

linxtion.com/demo/react-image-gallery

demo gif

React image gallery is a React component for building image galleries and carousels

Features

  • Mobile swipe gestures
  • Thumbnail navigation
  • Fullscreen support
  • Custom rendered slides
  • RTL support
  • Responsive design
  • Tons of customization options (see props below)

Getting started

React Image Gallery requires React 16.0.0 or later.

npm install react-image-gallery

Style import (with webpack)

# SCSS
@import "~react-image-gallery/styles/scss/image-gallery.scss"
# CSS
@import "~react-image-gallery/styles/css/image-gallery.css"

Example

Need more example? See example/app.js

import ImageGallery from 'react-image-gallery';

const images = [
  {
    original: 'https://picsum.photos/id/1018/1000/600/',
    thumbnail: 'https://picsum.photos/id/1018/250/150/',
  },
  {
    original: 'https://picsum.photos/id/1015/1000/600/',
    thumbnail: 'https://picsum.photos/id/1015/250/150/',
  },
  {
    original: 'https://picsum.photos/id/1019/1000/600/',
    thumbnail: 'https://picsum.photos/id/1019/250/150/',
  },
];

class MyGallery extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return <ImageGallery items={images} />;
  }
}
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Props

  • items

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9. WebSlides

GitHub logo webslides / WebSlides

Create HTML presentations in seconds —

WebSlides = Create stories with Karma

MIT License Release codecov Donate Twitter

Finally, everything you need to make HTML presentations, landings, and longforms in a beautiful way. Just a basic knowledge of HTML and CSS is required. Designers, marketers, and journalists can now focus on the content. — https://webslides.tv/demos.


Download

Simply choose a demo and customize it in seconds. Latest version: webslides.tv/webslides-latest.zip.


What's in the download?

The download includes demos and images (devices and logos) All content is for demo purposes only. Images are property of their respective owners.

webslides/
├── index.html
├── css/
│   ├── base.css
│   └── colors.css
│   └── svg-icons.css (optional)
├── js/
│   ├── webslides.js
│   └── svg-icons.js (optional)
└── demos/
└── images/

Features

  • Navigation (horizontal and vertical sliding): remote presenters, touchpad, keyboard shortcuts, and swipe.
  • Slide counter.
  • Permalinks: go to a specific slide.
  • Autoslide.
  • Click to nav.
  • Simple CSS alignments. Put content wherever you want (vertical centering...)
  • 40+ components…

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10. SVG.js

GitHub logo svgdotjs / svg.js

The lightweight library for manipulating and animating SVG

Open Result

11. React Motion

GitHub logo chenglou / react-motion

A spring that solves your animation problems.

React-Motion

Build Status npm version Bower version react-motion channel on discord

import {Motion, spring} from 'react-motion';
// In your render...
<Motion defaultStyle={{x: 0}} style={{x: spring(10)}}>
  {value => <div>{value.x}</div>}
</Motion>
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Animate a counter from 0 to 10. For more advanced usage, see below.

Install

  • Npm: npm install --save react-motion

  • Bower: do not install with bower install react-motion, it won't work. Use bower install --save https://unpkg.com/react-motion/bower.zip. Or in bower.json:

{
  "dependencies": {
    "react-motion": "https://unpkg.com/react-motion/bower.zip"
  }
}
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then include as

<script src="bower_components/react-motion/build/react-motion.js"></script>
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  • 1998 Script Tag:
<script src="https://unpkg.com/react-motion/build/react-motion.js"></script>
(Module exposed as `ReactMotion`)
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Works with React-Native v0.18+.

Demos

What does this library try to solve?

For 95% of use-cases of animating components, we don't have to resort to using hard-coded easing curves and duration. Set up a stiffness and damping for your UI element, and let the magic of physics take care of the rest. This way, you don't have to worry about petty situations such as interrupted animation behavior. It also greatly simplifies the API.

Examples:
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12. RELLAX

GitHub logo dixonandmoe / rellax

Lightweight, vanilla javascript parallax library

RELLAX

NPM Package Minified Size Gzipped Size

Rellax is a buttery smooth, super lightweight, vanilla javascript parallax library. Update: Rellax now works on mobile (v1.0.0).

Getting Started

Using npm

npm install rellax --save

Using yarn

yarn add rellax

CDN

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/dixonandmoe/rellax@master/rellax.min.js"></script>

Download Locally

if you're old school like us download and insert rellax.min.js in your html

<div class="rellax">
  I’m that default chill speed of "-2"
</div>
<div class="rellax" data-rellax-speed="7">
  I’m super fast!!
</div>
<div class="rellax" data-rellax-speed="-4">
  I’m extra slow and smooth
</div>

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/dixonandmoe/rellax@master/rellax.min.js"></script>
<script>
  // Accepts any class name
  var rellax = new Rellax('.rellax');
</script>
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<script>
  // Also can pass in optional settings block
  var rellax = new
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13. Dynamics.js

GitHub logo michaelvillar / dynamics.js

Javascript library to create physics-based animations

Dynamics.js

Dynamics.js is a JavaScript library to create physics-based animations

To see some demos, check out dynamicsjs.com.

Usage

Download:

Include dynamics.js into your page:

<script src="dynamics.js"></script>
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You can animate CSS properties of any DOM element.

var el = document.getElementById("logo")
dynamics.animate(el, {
  translateX: 350,
  scale: 2,
  opacity: 0.5
}, {
  type: dynamics.spring,
  frequency: 200,
  friction: 200,
  duration: 1500
})
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You also can animate SVG properties.

var path = document.querySelector("path")
dynamics.animate(path, {
  d: "M0,0 L0,100 L100,50 L0,0 Z",
  fill: "#FF0000",
  rotateZ: 45,
  // rotateCX and rotateCY are the center of
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14. mo · js

GitHub logo mojs / mojs

The motion graphics toolbelt for the web

mo · js – npm ci Coverage Status Slack

The motion graphics toolbelt for the web.

mo · js

Intro

mo · js is a javascript motion graphics library that is a fast, retina ready, modular and open source. In comparison to other libraries, it has a different syntax and code animation structure approach. The declarative API provides you a complete control over the animation, making it customizable with ease.

The library provides built-in components to start animating from scratch like html, shape, swirl, burst and stagger, but also bring you tools to help craft your animation in a most natural way. Using mojs on your site will enhance the user experience, enrich your content visually and create delightful animations precisely.

Install

Use with a bundler

Mojs is published on the NPM registry and GPR registry, so you can install it through the command line interpreter using your favorite package manager. This is the best way…

The library provides built-in components to start animating from scratch like html, shape, swirl, burst and stagger, but also bring you tools to help craft your animation in a most natural way


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15. Reveal.js

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16. Animsition

GitHub logo blivesta / animsition

A simple and easy jQuery plugin for CSS animated page transitions.

Animsition

Bower version npm version Build Status

A simple and easy jQuery plugin for CSS animated page transitions.

Demo & Installation

http://git.blivesta.com/animsition/

Development

Install : nodejs npm gulp

$ git clone https://github.com/blivesta/animsition.git
$ cd animsition
$ git checkout -b patch-1
$ npm install && gulp
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Build

$ gulp build
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Build -> Watch

$ gulp
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CDN

cdnjs

  • dist/css/animsition.css
  • dist/css/animsition.min.css
  • dist/js/animsition.js
  • dist/js/animsition.min.js

Contributing

To contribute to animsition, clone this repo locally and commit your code.
Please check that everything works before opening a pull-request.

Contributors

License

Released under the MIT license.


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17. SVG Mesh 3d

GitHub logo mattdesl / svg-mesh-3d

🚀 converts a SVG path to a 3D mesh

svg-mesh-3d

stable

[

](http://mattdesl.github.io/svg-mesh-3d/)

(ThreeJS demo) - (source)

A high-level module to convert a SVG <path> string into a 3D triangulated mesh. Best suited for silhouettes, like font icon SVGs.

Built on top of cdt2d by @mikolalysenko, and various other modules.

Install

npm install svg-mesh-3d --save
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Example

Here is an example using a simple path:

var svgMesh3d = require('svg-mesh-3d')
var path = 'M305.214,374.779c2.463,0,3.45,0.493...'
var mesh = svgMesh3d(path)
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The returned mesh is a 3D indexed "simplicial complex" that can be used in ThreeJS, StackGL, etc. It uses arrays for vectors and follows the format:

{
  positions: [ [x1, y1, z1], [x2, y2, z2], ... ],
  cells: [ [a, b, c], [d, e, f] ]
}
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Or, to load a mesh in…

A high-level module to convert a SVG string into a 3D triangulated mesh. Best suited for silhouettes, like font icon SVGs.

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18. Zdog

GitHub logo metafizzy / zdog

Flat, round, designer-friendly pseudo-3D engine for canvas & SVG

Zdog

Round, flat, designer-friendly pseudo-3D engine

View complete documentation and live demos at zzz.dog.

Install

Download

CDN

Link directly to Zdog JS on unpkg.

<script src="https://unpkg.com/zdog@1/dist/zdog.dist.min.js"></script>
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Package managers

npm: npm install zdog

Bower: bower install zdog

Hello world demo

Create 3D models with Zdog by adding shapes. See Getting started for a walk-through of this demo.

let isSpinning = true;
let illo = new Zdog.Illustration({
  element: '.zdog-canvas',
  zoom: 4,
  dragRotate: true,
  // stop spinning when drag starts
  onDragStart: function() {
    isSpinning = false;
  },
});

// circle
new Zdog.Ellipse({
  addTo: illo,
  diameter: 20,
  translate: { z: 10 },
  stroke: 5,
  color: '#636',
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With this library, you can create pseudo-3d elements, while you do not need to know geometry or algebra to create geometric shapes. This library is very easy to learn and learning will not take you much time.

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You can drag it



The End

Thank you for taking your time to my post. You can also recommend the GitHub repositories you use. Or suggest a better alternative to the repositories that are presented in this post.

I also advise novice frontend programmers not to try to implement some complex task on their own, but it is better to use a ready-made solution so as not to generate a lot of problems in their own and third-party projects.

No need to re-invent the wheel.
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While this is a very detailed post, which is awesome, pleeeeeease do not recommend projects that have not been updated in years, or have specifically stated they are discontinued. Quite a few of your links are of this type.

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How do you identify this repos

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You open the pages, and you look at the dates in the files to see when they've been updated last. In some of them, the explanation will say on the page that the project is discontinued, so you don't even have to do that.

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Because someone can fork the project and continue

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That isn't why they posted them. Now, if it was called "18 amazing repos that you can fork and continue improving", that would be different.

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You're right. Probably some of the repositories should not have been mentioned.