drawcall/Proton

Health v2 · maintenance only

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2478 stars · 283 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Proton is a lightweight JavaScript particle animation library for creating visual effects like flames, fireworks, explosions, and bullets. It supports multiple renderers including Canvas, DOM, WebGL, and Pixel renderers, and works with frameworks like React, Vue, Angular, Pixi.js, and Phaser.

Use cases

• create particle effects for web games
• add fireworks animation to a website
• simulate flames and explosions in the browser
• render tens of thousands of particles efficiently
• add particle backgrounds to a react app
• create pixel-style particle animations
• simulate gravity and brownian motion for particles

When to choose

• you need lightweight 2D particle effects in the browser
• you want flexibility across canvas, DOM, and WebGL rendering
• you use react, vue, angular, pixi.js, or phaser and need particle support
• you need physics-based particle simulation like gravity

When to avoid

• you need 3D particle effects (use three.proton instead)
• you need a full game engine rather than a particle library
• your project requires server-side rendering of animations

Facets

library · maturity stable

animation graphics ui-components web-development frontend graphics browser particle-system particle-engine canvas webgl visual-effects physics-simulation game-development javascript web

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