Anime.js vs. Less vs. Velocity.js vs. jQuery Comparison Chart

Anime.js is a lightweight JavaScript animation library with a simple, yet powerful API. It works with CSS properties, SVG, DOM attributes, and JavaScript Objects. Follow through animations made easy. Anime's built-in staggering system makes complex follow-through and overlapping animations simple. It can be used on both timings and properties. Animate multiple CSS transforms properties with different timings simultaneously on a single HTML element. Play, pause, control, reverse and trigger events in sync using the complete built-in callbacks and controls functions. Anime.js works with anything web. CSS, SVG, DOM attributes and JavaScript Objects, animate everything with a single unified API. Staggering allows you to animate multiple elements with follow-through and overlapping action. Animation keyframes are defined using an Array, within the keyframes property. Each keyframe duration will be equal to the animation's total duration divided by the number of keyframes.

Velocity is an animation engine with the same API as jQuery's animate. It works with and without jQuery. It's incredibly fast, and it features color animation, transforms, loops, easings, SVG support, and scrolling. It is the best of jQuery and CSS transitions combined. Download Velocity, include it on your page and replace all instances of jQuery's animate with velocity. You will immediately see a performance boost across all browsers and devices, especially on mobile. Velocity works everywhere, back to IE8 and Android 2.3. Under the hood, it mimics jQuery's queue, and thus interoperates seamlessly with jQuery's animate, fade, and delay. Since Velocity's syntax is identical to animate, your code doesn't need to change. JavaScript and jQuery are falsely conflated. JavaScript animation, which Velocity uses, is fast; it's jQuery that's slow. Although Velocity works alongside jQuery, it uses its own animation stack that delivers its performance.