How GSAP + AI Generates Advanced Vue & React Animations in One Line

gsap-skills overview

gsap-skills is an AI skill package that teaches AI coding assistants (Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot) the GSAP animation API, timeline composition, ScrollTrigger usage, React/Vue integration and performance‑optimisation patterns.

Why front‑end animation is difficult

Typical UI tasks (API calls, component state, forms) have clear logic, but advanced website animations such as smooth scrolling, storyboard sequences, parallax, page transitions or long‑page storytelling require precise coordination of many elements. Simple CSS transition cannot produce Apple‑style scroll‑driven or video‑like transitions.

GSAP core feature: Timeline

GSAP’s Timeline lets developers script animation sequences like a film, controlling order, start time and duration of each tween.

const tl = gsap.timeline();
tl.to('.title', { y: 0, opacity: 1 });
tl.to('.card', { scale: 1, stagger: 0.1 });
tl.to('.bg', { opacity: 1 });

ScrollTrigger for scroll‑driven animation

The ScrollTrigger plugin synchronises animations with scroll progress, pins elements and advances the view like an interactive movie. Correct usage requires handling trigger, scrub, pin, start/end, refresh, cleanup and lifecycle hooks, which differ across frameworks.

AI limitations before gsap-skills

Without the skill set AI often generated only simple transition: all .3s; snippets that failed for complex cases such as multi‑element coordination, scroll‑driven timelines or performance‑critical code.

What gsap-skills adds for AI

Generation of complete gsap.timeline() chains.

Correct ScrollTrigger configuration (trigger, scrub, pin, start/end, refresh, cleanup).

Framework‑specific lifecycle handling (React useGSAP(), gsap.context(); Vue onMounted / onUnmounted patterns).

Performance‑focused properties: use transform and opacity instead of layout‑changing properties, add will-change, quickTo, stagger, kill, refresh.

Framework‑specific challenges

In React, animations can persist after component unmount, ScrollTrigger instances may remain active, and DOM references can accumulate, leading to memory leaks and jank. Vue suffers similar issues with lingering animations and keep‑alive caches. GSAP provides helpers ( useGSAP(), gsap.context()) that automatically clean up instances.

Quick start

npx skills add https://github.com/greensock/gsap-skills

Optionally specify an AI agent:

npx skills add https://github.com/greensock/gsap-skills --agent antigravity

After installation the AI instantly gains knowledge of the GSAP API, timeline patterns, ScrollTrigger usage, React/Vue integration and performance best practices.

Repository

https://github.com/greensock/gsap-skills