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GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform), a JavaScript animation library for the modern web

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The industry standard for advanced web animation since forever. Framework-agnostic — works with React, Vue, vanilla JS, anywhere. Strongest tool for complex timelines, scroll-driven animation, and SVG morphing. Free core, paid plugins for the fanciest stuff.

Use this if

You are building marketing sites with award-show-worthy animation, complex scroll narratives, or SVG art.

Skip if

You are doing standard React UI animation — Motion is more idiomatic.

Animation & Motion
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animationgsapjavascriptjavascript-libraryscroll
Quick install
# Install via npm / pnpm / bun:
pnpm add GSAP
# or
npm install GSAP

Inferred from JavaScript · always double-check against the official README below.

README — rendered from greensock/GSAP

GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform)

GSAP - Animate anything

GSAP is a framework-agnostic JavaScript animation library that turns developers into animation superheroes. Build high-performance animations that work in every major browser. Animate CSS, SVG, canvas, React, Vue, WebGL, colors, strings, motion paths, generic objects... anything JavaScript can touch! GSAP's ScrollTrigger plugin delivers jaw-dropping scroll-based animations with minimal code. gsap.matchMedia() makes building responsive, accessibility-friendly animations a breeze.

No other library delivers such advanced sequencing, reliability, and tight control while solving real-world problems on over 12 million sites. GSAP works around countless browser inconsistencies; your animations just work. At its core, GSAP is a high-speed property manipulator, updating values over time with extreme accuracy. It's up to 20x faster than jQuery!

GSAP is completely flexible; sprinkle it wherever you want. Zero dependencies.

There are many optional plugins and easing functions for achieving advanced effects easily like scrolling, morphing, text splitting, animating along a motion path or FLIP animations. There's even a handy Observer for normalizing event detection across browsers/devices.

Get Started

Get Started with GSAP

Docs & Installation

View the full documentation here, including an installation guide.

CDN

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/gsap@3.15/dist/gsap.min.js"></script>

See JSDelivr's dedicated GSAP page for quick CDN links to the core files/plugins. There are more installation instructions at gsap.com.

Every major ad network excludes GSAP from file size calculations and most have it on their own CDNs, so contact them for the appropriate URL(s).

NPM

See the guide to using GSAP via NPM here.

npm install gsap

GSAP's core can animate almost anything including CSS and attributes, plus it includes all of the utility methods like interpolate(), mapRange(), most of the eases, and it can do snapping and modifiers.

// typical import
import gsap from "gsap";

// get other plugins:
import ScrollTrigger from "gsap/ScrollTrigger";
import Flip from "gsap/Flip";
import Draggable from "gsap/Draggable";

// or all tools are exported from the "all" file (excluding members-only plugins):
import { gsap, ScrollTrigger, Draggable, MotionPathPlugin } from "gsap/all";

// don't forget to register plugins
gsap.registerPlugin(ScrollTrigger, Draggable, Flip, MotionPathPlugin); 

The NPM files are ES modules, but there's also a /dist/ directory with UMD files for extra compatibility.

GSAP is FREE!

Thanks to Webflow, GSAP is now 100% FREE including ALL of the bonus plugins like SplitText, MorphSVG, and all the others that were exclusively available to Club GSAP members. That's right - the entire GSAP toolset is FREE, even for commercial use! 🤯 Read more here

ScrollTrigger & ScrollSmoother

If you're looking for scroll-driven animations, GSAP's ScrollTrigger plugin is the standard. There's a companion ScrollSmoother as well.

ScrollTrigger

Using React?

There's a @gsap/react package that exposes a useGSAP() hook which is a drop-in replacement for useEffect()/useLayoutEffect(), automating cleanup tasks. Please read the React guide for details.

Resources

Need help?

Ask in the friendly GSAP forums. Or share your knowledge and help someone else - it's a great way to sharpen your skills! Report any bugs there too (or file an issue here if you prefer).

License

GreenSock's standard "no charge" license can be viewed at https://gsap.com/standard-license.

Copyright (c) 2008-2026, GreenSock. All rights reserved.

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