What is Popmotion?
The JavaScript motion engine empowers users to create delightful user interfaces with Popmotion, a lightweight 12kb JavaScript motion engine that simplifies the process of crafting engaging user interactions. Popmotion provides a robust set of actions, including tweening, physics simulations, and user input tracking, along with built-in renderers for CSS and SVG, among others. The engine's flexibility is further enhanced by the ease of developing new actions and renderers, enabling developers to tailor the tool to their specific needs
Highlights
- Tiny: Popmotion's compact size, weighing in at only 11.7kb gzipped/minified, makes it an efficient choice for web applications
- Tween: The engine offers advanced tweening capabilities, including staggering, timelines, and cubic bezier easing
- Physics: Popmotion simulates realistic physical behaviors, such as velocity, friction, and spring-based animations
- Input: The engine supports native mouse and touch input, enabling seamless user interactions
- Renderers: Popmotion provides built-in renderers for CSS, DOM attributes, SVG, and path drawing, allowing for diverse visualization options
- Open render loop: The engine's frame-sync and discrete render step scheduling capabilities enable developers to integrate custom tasks
- Complex value types: Popmotion supports a wide range of value types, including colors, path definitions, and more, expanding the creative possibilities
- Extensibility: Developers can easily add their own easing functions, input sources, actions, and render adapters to the engine
- Plugins: Popmotion offers a growing ecosystem of plugins, including Inertia, Scroll To, and adapters for A-Frame and Three.js.