
Styling / UI & Animation
GSAP
Industry-standard JavaScript animation engine — timelines, scroll triggers, morphing.
Monthly cost
Free
Popularity
4/5
LLM knowledge
5/5
Difficulty
Medium
bundle: ~30kb core
#open-source
What GSAP is good at
Strengths
- +Unmatched perf and feature set
- +Works with any DOM, Canvas, WebGL
- +ScrollTrigger is the gold standard
Tradeoffs
- −Larger bundle than pure-CSS approaches
- −Plugins formerly paid
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Drop into Claude / Cursor to get idiomatic GSAP code.
You're working with GSAP. Industry-standard JavaScript animation engine — timelines, scroll triggers, morphing. Best practices: - Lean on: unmatched perf and feature set - Lean on: works with any dom, canvas, webgl - Lean on: scrolltrigger is the gold standard Things to watch for: - Watch out for: larger bundle than pure-css approaches - Watch out for: plugins formerly paid General guidance: - Canonical docs: https://gsap.com — check here before inventing APIs. - Keep secrets in environment variables, never commit them. - Write TypeScript where the ecosystem supports it; add types to every exported function. - Add tests for the critical paths before declaring the task done. - Read-the-docs is usually faster than guessing — cite the docs page in code comments when you apply a non-obvious pattern.
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