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@tsparticles/interaction-external-repulse
Advanced tools
tsParticles repulse external interaction
tsParticles interaction plugin for repulse effect around mouse or HTML elements.
The CDN/Vanilla version JS has one required file in vanilla configuration:
Including the tsparticles.interaction.external.repulse.min.js
file will export the function to load the interaction
plugin:
loadExternalRepulseInteraction;
Once the scripts are loaded you can set up tsParticles
and the interaction plugin like this:
(async () => {
await loadExternalRepulseInteraction(tsParticles);
await tsParticles.load({
id: "tsparticles",
options: {
/* options */
},
});
})();
This package is compatible also with ES or CommonJS modules, firstly this needs to be installed, like this:
$ npm install @tsparticles/interaction-external-repulse
or
$ yarn add @tsparticles/interaction-external-repulse
Then you need to import it in the app, like this:
const { tsParticles } = require("@tsparticles/engine");
const { loadExternalRepulseInteraction } = require("@tsparticles/interaction-external-repulse");
(async () => {
await loadExternalRepulseInteraction(tsParticles);
})();
or
import { tsParticles } from "@tsparticles/engine";
import { loadExternalRepulseInteraction } from "@tsparticles/interaction-external-repulse";
(async () => {
await loadExternalRepulseInteraction(tsParticles);
})();
3.9.1 (2025-08-03)
Note: Version bump only for package @tsparticles/workspace
FAQs
tsParticles repulse external interaction
The npm package @tsparticles/interaction-external-repulse receives a total of 64,198 weekly downloads. As such, @tsparticles/interaction-external-repulse popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @tsparticles/interaction-external-repulse demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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