# rossning92/movy

movy.js is a client-side JS animation engine for creating explanatory videos.

Repository: https://github.com/rossning92/movy
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/movy
Homepage: https://rossning92.github.io/movy/
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: movy, animations, animation-engine, animation
Last push: 2025-11-22T23:09:15+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 56/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 53, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2053, "days_push": 284, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1417, forks 165 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:39.990872+00:00)

## What it is
movy.js is a client-side JavaScript/TypeScript animation engine for creating explanatory videos programmatically. It provides a simple API for adding animated shapes and text, with live preview in the browser and rendering to video files.

## Use cases
- create animated explainer videos with code
- make educational animation videos in javascript
- animate shapes and text for tutorials
- render animations to webm video files
- alternative to manim for js developers
- build motion graphics for presentations

## When to choose
- you want to script animations in JavaScript instead of Python
- you need quick browser-based preview with hot reload
- you're making simple explanatory or educational videos

## When to avoid
- you need advanced video editing or timeline-based GUI tools
- you require complex 3D animation or physics simulation
- you need production-grade video encoding beyond webm

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: animation, graphics, video-processing, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, graphics, media, education
- platform: browser, cross-platform
- tags: animation-engine, explanatory-videos, javascript, typescript, motion-graphics, video-rendering, manim-alternative, nodejs

## Member repositories
- rossning92/movy (main) score 56

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:39.990872+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 2026-08-30T04:38:02.371915+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/rossning92/movy (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:39.990872+00:00, sha f31cea23c4a0)
  - homepage: https://rossning92.github.io/movy/ (fetched 2026-08-29T11:50:51.369703+00:00, sha 142850d7030f)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/movy (fetched 2026-08-29T11:50:51.379291+00:00, sha c2fac9173da2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.