# razorjack/quicksand

jQuery plugin. Reorder and filter items with a nice shuffling animation.

Repository: https://github.com/razorjack/quicksand
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/quicksand
Homepage: https://razorjack.net/quicksand/
Language: JavaScript
License: GPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2017-11-10T13:21:50+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6049, "days_push": 3218, "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 1843, forks 330 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:43.254591+00:00)

## What it is
Quicksand is a jQuery plugin that reorders and filters collections of HTML items with a smooth shuffling animation, replacing one set of items with another. It supports configurable duration, easing, CSS3 scaling, and container height/width adjustment.

## Use cases
- animate filtering of a list or grid of items with jQuery
- reorder gallery or portfolio items with a shuffling transition
- swap list contents via Ajax with a smooth animation
- add animated sorting to a product or app grid

## When to choose
- you maintain a legacy jQuery codebase and want animated item filtering
- you need a lightweight, dependency-minimal shuffling animation for lists

## When to avoid
- you use a modern framework like React, Vue, or Svelte
- you need actively maintained software with recent updates
- your project avoids jQuery

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: abandoned
- function: animation, ui-components, frontend-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend
- platform: browser
- tags: jquery-plugin, shuffling-animation, filtering, reordering, legacy-jquery, nodejs

## Member repositories
- razorjack/quicksand (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:43.254591+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 2026-08-30T03:17:58.327856+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/razorjack/quicksand (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:43.254591+00:00, sha d3e1e55ec43f)
  - homepage: https://razorjack.net/quicksand/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:57:01.783503+00:00, sha e55cbcd7ecbf)
  - site_page: https://razorjack.net/quicksand/docs-and-demos.html (fetched 2026-08-29T10:57:01.792356+00:00, sha 2121254acecb)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.