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Re: Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates

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GSAP – A wildly robust JavaScript animation library built for professionals [ https://gsap.com ]

I keep hearing about it, but I've never used it. Why would I use it over https://animejs.com ?

I only discovered GSAP the other week, very quickly solved a complex animation problem and walked away quite impressed.

Now I'm looking at AnimeJS and my mind is properly blown, looks even better.

Re: Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates

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Isn't that fair? What am I missing?

It's a land grab that, if GSAP becomes a standard, makes it that much harder to compete with Webflow. For example GSAP will now never make its way into Figma or Framer which is a staple of the design workflows of many teams. This move by Webflow makes GSAP a line of demarkation between Figma-based workflows, Framer-based workflows, and Webflow-based workflows. Any momentum the library might have had is now skewered b…

I mean, don’t framer and figma also have loads and loads of features which you can’t import into other tools?

Re: Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates

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I hope this is a reaction to Framer's rapid development in Frame Motion ( https://motion.dev/ ). Webflow and Framer are competing as site builders, so giving the animation library to everyone is like Meta giving out React.

I’d say it is too little too late. Motion already has the lion’s share and anime.js is another strong open source alternative. GSAP was quite big in its day but why would anyone invest in it today? Also Motion is no longer part of Framer.

Re: Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates

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I keep hearing about it, but I've never used it. Why would I use it over https://animejs.com ?

I only discovered GSAP the other week, very quickly solved a complex animation problem and walked away quite impressed. Now I'm looking at AnimeJS and my mind is properly blown, looks even better.

Serious question, is this a joke? I just see a black screen when I go to the site. I refreshed multiple times. Cleared cache. Just a black screen.

Re: Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't that fair? What am I missing?

It's a land grab that, if GSAP becomes a standard, makes it that much harder to compete with Webflow. For example GSAP will now never make its way into Figma or Framer which is a staple of the design workflows of many teams. This move by Webflow makes GSAP a line of demarkation between Figma-based workflows, Framer-based workflows, and Webflow-based workflows. Any momentum the library might have had is now skewered b…

GSAP is already a standard and Next has always done CSR.

Re: Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I only discovered GSAP the other week, very quickly solved a complex animation problem and walked away quite impressed. Now I'm looking at AnimeJS and my mind is properly blown, looks even better.

Serious question, is this a joke? I just see a black screen when I go to the site. I refreshed multiple times. Cleared cache. Just a black screen.

You have probably disabled WebGL in your browser.

Re: Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates

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GSAP – A wildly robust JavaScript animation library built for professionals [ https://gsap.com ]

I keep hearing about it, but I've never used it. Why would I use it over https://animejs.com ?

GSAP is a bit more robust than anime.js. Over the years anime has been adding more functionality and changing its syntax to be more like GSAP's. They're both solid libraries though
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