Anime.js is a fast, multipurpose and lightweight JavaScript animation library with a simple, yet powerful API.
It works with CSS properties, SVG, DOM attributes and JavaScript Objects.
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Usage
Anime.js V4 works by importing ES modules like so:
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The npm package animejs receives a total of 299,631 weekly downloads. As such, animejs popularity was classified as popular.
We found that animejs demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 07 Oct 2025
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