# Velocity 2.0.1 beta

This is a public beta - files are not available on CDN

Docs

https://github.com/julianshapiro/velocity/wiki

News

WhatsApp, Tumblr, Windows, Samsung, Uber, and thousands of other companies rely on Velocity. Visit Libscore.com to see which sites use Velocity on their homepage.

React Plugin

Announcement: https://fabric.io/blog/introducing-the-velocityreact-library
Repo: https://github.com/twitter-fabric/velocity-react
NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/velocity-react

Quickstart

Velocity (CDN, choose one of them):

<script src="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/velocity/2.0/velocity.min.js"></script>
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/velocity/2.0.0/velocity.min.js"></script>

Velocity UI pack (CDN, choose one of them):

<script src="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/velocity/2.0/velocity.ui.min.js"></script>
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/velocity/2.0.0/velocity.ui.min.js"></script>

Please note that JSDelivr can automatically supply the latest release, while CloudFlare needs to ask for a specific version.

Package managers:

npm: npm install velocity-animate
bower: bower install velocity

Questions or Problems?

Ask on StackOverflow (make sure you add the [velocity.js] and [javascript] tags).

Updates

2.0: Typescript update and complete refactoring.
1.5: Bugfixes, IE9 compatibility fixes.
1.4: Pause / Resume (per element or global).
Forcefed string animation (just have matching number spaces) including unit conversions and colour names (ie background:["rgba(red,0.1)", "blue"]). High resolution timers (animations should be slightly smoother).
Various fixes including ticker (loading Velocity in a background window) and color handling.
1.3: Code cleanup - no breaking changes known.
1.2: Custom tweens. Custom easings. "Finish" command.
1.0: File name changed to velocity.js. Read VelocityJS.org/#dependencies.
0.1: stop now stops animations immediately (instead of only clearing the remainder of the animation queue). No other backwards-incompatible changes were made.

Learn

Motion design: smashingmagazine.com/2014/06/18/faster-ui-animations-with-velocity-js
Animating without jQuery: smashingmagazine.com/2014/09/04/animating-without-jquery
Performance comparisons: davidwalsh.name/css-js-animation
Workflow: css-tricks.com/improving-ui-animation-workflow-velocity-js

Comparisons

CSS transitions are meant for simple interface flourishes.
jQuery's $.animate() is slow and poorly-equipped for motion design.
Velocity is a fast, feature-rich standalone alternative to jQuery's $.animate().