willyciaps / velocity

Accelerated JavaScript animation.

##Velocity

Docs
http://VelocityJS.org

Quickstart
<script src="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/jquery.velocity/0.7.0/jquery.velocity.min.js"></script>

Package Managers
Bower package is velocity. NPM package is velocity-animate.

Coming Soon
jQuery dependency removal and Zepto support.

###Learn

• UI Pack: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/06/18/faster-ui-animations-with-velocity-js/
• Performance comparisons: http://davidwalsh.name/css-js-animation
• Performance optimizations: http://www.sitepoint.com/incredibly-fast-ui-animation-using-velocity-js/
• Workflow: http://css-tricks.com/improving-ui-animation-workflow-velocity-js

###Comparisons

• Famo.us is a full-fledged mobile app framework built around a physics engine.
• GSAP is a fast, multi-purpose animation platform. It inspired me to pursue the development of Velocity.
• Velocity is a lightweight tool for drastically improving UI animation performance and workflow.

###New Features

• 0.7.0: Transforms are removed when they hit 0.
• 0.6.0: Can set display: "auto" and can set visibility. See http://VelocityJS.org/#displayAndVisibility.
• 0.5.0: Promises support. See http://VelocityJS.org/#promises.
• 0.3.0-0.4.0: SVG animation support. See http://VelocityJS.org/#svg.
• 0.2.0: Added step easing. See http://VelocityJS.org/#easing.
• 0.1.0: The stop command now stops animations immediately (instead of just clearing the remainder of the animation queue). No other backwards-incompatible changes were made. See http://VelocityJS.org/#stop.

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MIT License. © Julian Shapiro (http://twitter.com/shapiro).