What is Velocity.js?
It is an animation engine with the same API as jQuery's $.animate(). It works with and without jQuery. It is the best of jQuery and CSS transitions combined.
Velocity.js is a tool in the Javascript UI Libraries category of a tech stack.
Velocity.js is an open source tool with 17.3K GitHub stars and 1.6K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Velocity.js's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Velocity.js?
Companies
4 companies reportedly use Velocity.js in their tech stacks, including IWB, Tech I Used Over The Years, and Wayla Web.
Developers
Velocity.js Integrations
fancybox, Dojo, Stencil, jQWidgets, and DNN are some of the popular tools that integrate with Velocity.js. Here's a list of all 11 tools that integrate with Velocity.js.
Velocity.js's Features
- Color animation
- Transforms
- Loops
- Easings
- SVG support
- Scrolling.
Velocity.js Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Velocity.js?
jQuery
jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
React
Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.
AngularJS
AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.
Vue.js
It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.
jQuery UI
Whether you're building highly interactive web applications or you just need to add a date picker to a form control, jQuery UI is the perfect choice.
