# miniMAC/magic

CSS3 Animations with special effects

Repository: https://github.com/miniMAC/magic
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/magic
Homepage: https://www.minimamente.com/project/magic/
Language: SCSS
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: css, animation, css3-animations, magic, css3, npm, gulp, yarn
Last push: 2022-08-23T21:08:20+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4830, "days_push": 1471, "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 8603, forks 1166 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:23.761706+00:00)

## What it is
Magic is a lightweight CSS3 animation library (about 3.1 kB gzipped) providing dozens of special-effect animation classes like puffIn, twisterInDown, and bombRightOut. It is distributed as a CSS/SCSS package usable via plain CSS classes, JavaScript, or jQuery.

## Use cases
- add css animations to website elements
- special effects for divs on hover
- animate elements on page load with javascript
- lightweight css animation library
- css keyframe effects like puff in and vanish out
- sass/scss animation classes for web project

## When to choose
- you want small, dependency-free CSS animations triggered by class names
- you need a variety of playful special effects for web UI
- you use plain CSS, SCSS, JavaScript, or jQuery and want drop-in animations

## When to avoid
- you need JavaScript-driven or scroll-triggered animation orchestration
- you require physics-based or canvas/WebGL animations
- you need actively developed features or frequent updates

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: animation, css-framework, ui-components
- domain: web-development, frontend, web-design
- platform: browser, cross-platform
- tags: css3-animations, scss, special-effects, magictime, npm-package

## Member repositories
- miniMAC/magic (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:23.761706+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 2026-08-29T17:26:08.086834+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/miniMAC/magic (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:23.761706+00:00, sha e72aa9a7bf36)
  - homepage: https://www.minimamente.com/project/magic/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:26:18.912134+00:00, sha 0e0e33de9399)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.