Comment by jasonjmcghee
1 day ago
Motion Canvas is a mature / popular solution in the "manim but typescript" space for those unfamiliar.
It can be used for interactive blog posts and embedded animations etc as well.
It also has a built in animation editor / timeline.
Please note that Motion Canvas is also abandoned, the main site is down, and the last commit was Dec 2024.
Afaik it's considered "stable".
There's 2800+ people in the discord.
And the community made a backup of the site https://archive.canvascommons.io/
Update: sounds like the author had some life changes and had to stop his YouTube channel which was the primary motivator for the library- but there are forks popping up (https://github.com/canvas-commons/canvas-commons).
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This notion that an open source library is "dead" and shouldn't be used because it's not being actively updated is a bit odd. You can fork and fix issues you have. It's got years of many people's work put into it. It's a great library and widely used on YouTube and elsewhere.
Canvas Commons is an active fork of the original repo: https://github.com/canvas-commons/canvas-commons Docs for Canvas Commons: https://canvascommons.io/
Furthermore, the old docs for Motion Canvas can be found here: https://archive.canvascommons.io/
How easy is it to replicate manim's style using motion canvas?
Someone wrote a blog about their journey https://slama.dev/motion-canvas/introduction/
But- probably reasonably simple, if you mean the "writing" style of manim. That's just animating an SVG stroke.
And then colors and typography