jraleman / react-particle-animation

✨Canvas-based particle animation for React.

react-particle-animation (demo)

✨ Canvas-based particle animation for React.

Install

npm install --save react-particle-animation
# or
yarn add react-particle-animation

Usage

Check out the demo in the example folder.

import React, { Component } from 'react'

import ParticleAnimation from 'react-particle-animation'

class Example extends Component {
  render () {
    return (
      <ParticleAnimation />
    )
  }
}

Props

Property	Type	Default	Description
numParticles	number	400	Number of particles to use.
interactive	boolean	true	Whether or not animation responds to mouse hover.
color	object	{ r: 158, g: 217, b: 249, a: 255 }	Base rgba particle color.
background	object	{ r: 255, g: 255, b: 255, a: 255 }	Background rgba color.
lineWidth	number	1.0	Connecting line width.
particleRadius	number	1.0	Scaling factor for particle radii.
particleSpeed	number	1.0	Scaling factor for particle speed.
...	...	undefined	Any other props are applied to the root canvas element.

Note that for colors, rgba are all floating point numbers between 0 and 255 (inclusive).

Note that the canvas size will automatically be inferred based on available space via react-sizeme, so it should be really easy to use this component as a fullscreen background as in the demo.

Related

• particles.js - Older particle animation. Oddly enough, I developed this animation in Java back in 2008, though the two animations are AFAIK unrelated to each other.
• Intersection.Aggregate - Jared Tarbell's original processing work from 2004 which this animation was inspired by (e.g., visualizing the intersections between circles moving about randomly).

License

MIT © transitive-bullshit

This module was bootstrapped with create-react-library.