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Move.js is a small JavaScript library making CSS3 backed animation

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I opened the link and didn't pay attention to the URL. Saw the API, the page design and what it does and thought to myself, "This must be TJ's work".

(latest commit 2 years ago)

It reached perfection!

Not surprising given who the author is.

Not sure what is being implied here, but TJ puts out some of the most polished code around.

Didn't mean to imply otherwise. I've learned quite a bit just reading his code. He has a ton of projects and I worry that he's spread himself too thin. I assumed this project had been abandoned.

Sorry TJ, didn't mean to sound like a dick.

I do have too many to maintain but there is such a thing as them being "done". Projects don't have to be active to be useful, plus it's open-source, I'd rather keep them around for other people to fork/leverage/maintain than delete them to make way for new projects. The real problem are the subjective ones like Jade/Stylus where the scope is limitless and everyone has a different idea of what they should have.

If anything projects with fewer recent commits are generally more stable/robust...

Or abandoned. I appreciate github projects, and seeing open issues and pull requests. Helps to make the determination if something is "feature complete and stable" vs. abandoned.

This is especially difficult with NodeJS where you have a lot of options for almost everything, and half of which is abandoned. Though, it seems to be getting a bit better and easier to follow.

Yeah, just take them with a grain of salt until you actually read the issues/pulls. Often it's silly things like "support coffeescript" etc haha, but otherwise that's a decent way to gauge a project

Who is it?

I was about to ask how did it get so many stars, now I understand :p

Wow, that's neat. What other frameworks do this?

http://lvivski.com/anima

By the way it's the only to support physics in animations

http://ricostacruz.com/jquery.transit/

I just started a project yesterday using Transit. It's really nice work with.

http://www.greensock.com/gsap-js/

GSAP is more robust than these. With reverse playing and yo-yo'ing....so surprised it isn't mentioned more on here.

http://www.justinaguilar.com/animations/index.html

YUI does CSS based transitions[1] and it falls back to a JavaScript implementation when the browser doesn't support them.

[1] http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/transition/