sparticles

• Purpose: Sparticles is a lightweight, high-performance JavaScript library for creating animated particles in a canvas. It's designed for scenarios where you need visual effects like sparkles, snow, or stars on a webpage.

• Key Features:

  • Supports various particle shapes (circle, square, triangle, diamond, line, star, or custom images).
  • Customizable properties like color, size, speed, rotation, alpha (transparency), and glow effects.
  • Performance-optimized to run smoothly even with many particles (up to 1,000+ at 120fps on capable devices).
  • Responsive canvas sizing and mobile-friendly considerations.

• Target Audience:

  • Web developers looking to add lightweight particle effects to websites or applications.
  • Suitable for marketing pages, event-themed designs, or decorative enhancements.

• Framework Support:

  • Works with vanilla JavaScript, jQuery, and modern frameworks like Svelte, Vue.js, etc.
  • Includes specific Svelte integration examples for easy adoption.

• Customization:

  • Extensive options for particle behavior (direction, variance, bounce, drift, twinkle).
  • Supports random color generation or predefined color palettes.
  • Can use custom images (e.g., SVGs) as particle shapes.

• Performance Notes:

  • Optimized for low CPU usage (~9% for 1,000 particles on capable devices).
  • Recommends reducing particle count on mobile devices for better performance.

For more details, visit the official documentation [fa-solid fa-up-right-from-square].