# julianshapiro/blast

Blast text apart to make it manipulable.

Repository: https://github.com/julianshapiro/blast
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/blast
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-04-20T08:43:44+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4416, "days_push": 865, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1522, forks 136 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:57.954773+00:00)

## What it is
Blast is a JavaScript library that separates text into individually manipulable elements (words, characters, etc.) for animation and typographic effects. It works with or without jQuery/Zepto and pairs naturally with the Velocity animation library by the same author.

## Use cases
- animate individual letters or words on a webpage
- split text into characters for typographic effects
- build kinetic typography animations
- apply per-word styling or highlighting to text
- create text reveal effects on scroll
- manipulate text nodes without breaking HTML structure

## When to choose
- you need fine-grained control over individual words or characters in text
- you use Velocity or jQuery and want a compatible text-splitting utility
- you need broad legacy browser support back to IE6

## When to avoid
- you use a modern framework like React or Vue where component-based text splitting is idiomatic
- you only need simple CSS-based text effects without DOM splitting
- you need actively developed features or modern tooling support

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: animation, ui-components, templating
- domain: web-development, frontend, graphics
- platform: browser
- tags: text-animation, typography, jquery-plugin, dom-manipulation, velocity, nodejs

## Member repositories
- julianshapiro/blast (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:57.954773+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:31:47.541095+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/julianshapiro/blast (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:57.954773+00:00, sha c08c24024549)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.