# transitive-bullshit/react-particle-effect-button

Bursting particle effect buttons for React 🎉

Repository: https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/react-particle-effect-button
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/react-particle-effect-button
Homepage: https://transitive-bullshit.github.io/react-particle-effect-button/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: codrops, react, button, canvas, particles
Last push: 2023-10-26T21:23:35+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": 3048, "days_push": 1042, "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 1506, forks 99 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:55.066457+00:00)

## What it is
A React component library that renders buttons with bursting particle disintegration/reintegration animations, ported from a Codrops article. It uses canvas-based particles triggered by toggling a `hidden` prop.

## Use cases
- add a particle burst animation to a React button
- make a button disintegrate into particles on click
- add playful micro-interactions to a React app
- recreate the Codrops particle effect buttons in React
- animate a button disappearing and reappearing

## When to choose
- you use React and want a ready-made particle button effect
- you want a lightweight canvas-based animation component
- you want to customize particle color, duration, and direction via props

## When to avoid
- you don't use React
- you need a general-purpose animation library like GSAP or Framer Motion
- you need guaranteed ongoing maintenance for a production-critical feature
- you need SSR-safe rendering without canvas

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: animation, ui-components, frontend-framework
- domain: frontend, web-development, graphics
- platform: browser
- tags: react, particle-effects, button, canvas, ui-animation, nodejs, javascript

## Member repositories
- transitive-bullshit/react-particle-effect-button (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:55.066457+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 2026-08-30T04:32:41.202671+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/react-particle-effect-button (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:55.066457+00:00, sha c78ba1da7419)
  - homepage: https://transitive-bullshit.github.io/react-particle-effect-button/ (fetched 2026-08-29T11:37:21.069148+00:00, sha 1bf55ae6f043)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/react-particle-effect-button (fetched 2026-08-29T11:37:21.078262+00:00, sha fddd47c1b8d8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.