# maxwellito/vivus

JavaScript library to make drawing animation on SVG

Repository: https://github.com/maxwellito/vivus
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/vivus
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2022-07-06T22:16:59+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": 4495, "days_push": 1519, "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 15485, forks 1122 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:09.922997+00:00)

## What it is
Vivus is a lightweight, dependency-free JavaScript library that animates SVGs to give them the appearance of being hand-drawn, using the strokeDashoffset CSS property. It offers several built-in animation styles (delayed, sync, oneByOne) plus custom scripting options.

## Use cases
- animate an svg logo so it looks like it's being drawn on page load
- add a hand-drawing effect to svg icons and illustrations
- create line-drawing animations for a landing page hero graphic
- convert svg shapes to paths and animate their strokes
- generate a self-contained animated svg without javascript

## When to choose
- you want a tiny, dependency-free library for stroke-drawing SVG animations
- you need multiple animation styles or custom draw timing for SVG paths
- you want to embed an animated SVG without external JavaScript

## When to avoid
- your SVG uses filled shapes rather than strokes, since only stroke drawing is animated
- you need general-purpose animation of arbitrary DOM properties or complex timelines
- you need a library with active development and recent releases

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: animation, ui-components, frontend-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend, graphics
- platform: browser
- tags: svg, stroke-animation, drawing-effect, zero-dependencies, css, nodejs

## Member repositories
- maxwellito/vivus (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:09.922997+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 2026-08-29T17:05:49.919827+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/maxwellito/vivus (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:09.922997+00:00, sha 671d91bcdc1e)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/vivus (fetched 2026-08-29T08:04:12.397807+00:00, sha 53354b6e198b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.