Think of GSAP as the Swiss Army Knife of animation…but better. It animates anything JavaScript can touch (CSS properties, canvas library objects, SVG, generic objects, whatever) and it solves countless browser inconsistencies, all with blazing speed (up to 20x faster than jQuery), including automatic GPU-acceleration of transforms. See the http://greensock.com/why-gsap/ for details. Most other libraries only animate CSS properties. Plus, their sequencing abilities and runtime controls pale by comparison. Simply put, GSAP is the most robust high-performance animation library on the planet, which is probably why every major ad network excludes it from file size calculations and hosts it on their CDNs. Unlike monolithic frameworks that dictate how you structure your apps, GSAP completely flexible; sprinkle it wherever you want.
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Jerry O.
Advanced user of GreenSock Animation PlatformWhat do you like best?
GSAP offers the easiest methods to animate/manipulate SVG elements. Used in conjunction with SVG libraries such as Raphael and Snapz, you will find yourself using GSAP instead of the built in animation tools.
As well with angular, GSAP works nicely with angular's ngAnimate to do sophisticated timeline work that is difficult to accomplish with CSS.
What do you dislike?
Only with angular, like any third party library, you have to figure out a good entry point to integrate with angular. But the easiest method is to keep GSAP as a global in the build process.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Go through the tutorials to get started quickly. Stick with it. It may look like JQuery at first, but it isn't. Once you finish some basic tutorials, you will find it's very scalable and easy to use.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
We are building drag and drop illustrations ( proprietary work, so can't explain in detail ). GSAP yields much smaller development time.
