[JS] How to create confetti animations using a button with tsParticles πŸŽ‰

[JS] How to create confetti animations using a button with tsParticles πŸŽ‰

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tsParticles recently has been updated to version 1.30 with new beautiful and realistic confetti animations.

They are awesome but there's a lot to configure, right?

Don't worry, there's a simpler way using the tsParticles confetti preset.

Here a sample starting the animation when a button is clicked

{% codepen codepen.io/matteobruni/pen/zYwYEgg %}

{% github matteobruni/tsparticles %}

How to use it

CDN / Vanilla JS / jQuery

The first step is installing tsParticles following the instructions for vanilla javascript in the main project here

Once added the script you need one more script to be included in your page (or you can download that from jsDelivr:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/tsparticles"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/tsparticles-preset-confetti"></script>

Or

import { tsParticles } from "tsparticles";
import { loadConfettiPreset } from "tsparticles-preset-confetti";

This script MUST be placed after the tsParticles one.

Bundle

A bundled script can also be used, this will include every needed plugin needed by the preset.

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/tsparticles-preset-confetti/dist/tsparticles.preset.confetti.bundle.min.js"></script>

Usage

Once the scripts are loaded you can set up tsParticles like this:

loadConfettiPreset(tsParticles);

tsParticles.load("tsparticles", {
  preset: "confetti",
});

Alternative Usage

This module exports another method for using the confetti preset

confetti("tsparticles", {
  /**
   * @deprecated use count property instead
   */
  particleCount: 50,
  /**
   * @deprecated use position property instead
   */
  origin: {
    x: 50,
    y: 50,
  },
  //------------------------------------------
  angle: 90,
  count: 50,
  position: {
    x: 50,
    y: 50,
  },
  spread: 45,
  startVelocity: 45,
  decay: 0.9,
  gravity: 1,
  drift: 0,
  ticks: 200,
  colors: ["#ffffff", "#ff0000"],
  shapes: ["square", "circle"],
  scalar: 1,
  zIndex: 100,
  disableForReducedMotion: true,
});

This function is available for import too in the tsparticles-preset-confetti package

This method doesn't need to call the loadConfettiPreset method since it's called automatically.

Options

The confetti first parameter is the tsParticles container id and the second parameter is a single options object, which has the following properties:

  • count Integer (default: 50): The number of confetti to launch. More is always fun... but be cool, there's a lot of math involved. (particleCount can be used too, but it's deprecated)
  • angle Number (default: 90): The angle in which to launch the confetti, in degrees: 90 is straight up.
  • spread Number (default: 45): How far off center the confetti can go, in degrees. 45 means the confetti will launch at the defined angle plus or minus 22.5 degrees.
  • startVelocity Number (default: 45): How fast the confetti will start going, in pixels.
  • decay Number (default: 0.9): How quickly the confetti will lose speed. Keep this number between 0 and 1, otherwise the confetti will gain speed. Better yet, just never change it.
  • gravity Number (default: 1): How quickly the particles are pulled down: 1 is full gravity, 0.5 is half gravity, etc., but there are no limits. You can even make particles go up if you'd like.
  • drift Number (default: 0): How much to the side the confetti will drift. The default is 0, meaning that they will fall straight down. Use a negative number for left and positive number for right.
  • ticks Number (default: 200): How many times the confetti will move. This is abstract... but play with it if the confetti disappear too quickly for you.
  • position Object: Where to start firing confetti from. Feel free to launch off-screen if you'd like. (origin can be used too, but it's deprecated)
    • position.x Number (default: 0.5): The x position on the page, with 0 being the left edge and 1 being the right edge.
    • position.y Number (default: 0.5): The y position on the page, with 0 being the top edge and 1 being the bottom edge.
  • colors Array<String>: An array of color strings, in the HEX format... you know, like #bada55.
  • shapes Array<String>: An array of shapes for the confetti. The possible values are square and circle. The default is to use both shapes in an even mix. You can even change the mix by providing a value such as ['circle', 'circle', 'square'] to use two third circles and one third squares.
  • scalar Number (default: 1): Scale factor for each confetti particle. Use decimals to make the confetti smaller. Go on, try teeny tiny confetti, they are adorable!
  • zIndex Integer (default: 100): The confetti should be on top, after all. But if you have a crazy high page, you can set it even higher.
  • disableForReducedMotion Boolean (default: true): Disables confetti entirely for users that prefer reduced motion.

Customization

Important ⚠️ You can override all the options defining the properties like in any standard tsParticles installation. This works only with the classic loadConfettiPreset method, the confetti function has its own parameters.

tsParticles.load("tsparticles", {
  particles: {
    color: {
      value: ["#0000ff", "#00ff00"],
    },
  },
  preset: "confetti",
});

Like in the sample above, the white and red colors will be replaced by blue and lime.

React.js / Preact / Inferno

The syntax for React.js, Preact and Inferno is the same.

This sample uses the class component syntax, but you can use hooks as well (if the library supports it).

import Particles from "react-tsparticles";
import { Main } from "tsparticles";
import { loadConfettiPreset } from "tsparticles-preset-confetti";

export class ParticlesContainer extends React.PureComponent<IProps> {
  // this customizes the component tsParticles installation
  customInit(main: Main) {
    // this adds the preset to tsParticles, you can safely use the
    loadConfettiPreset(main);
  }

  render() {
    const options = {
      preset: "confetti",
    };

    return <Particles options={options} init={this.customInit} />;
  }
}

Vue (2.x and 3.x)

The syntax for Vue.js 2.x and 3.x is the same

<Particles id="tsparticles" :particlesInit="particlesInit" url="http://foo.bar/particles.json" />

function particlesInit(main: Main) {
  loadConfettiPreset(main);
}

Angular

<ng-particles
  [id]="id"
  [options]="particlesOptions"
  (particlesLoaded)="particlesLoaded($event)"
  (particlesInit)="particlesInit($event)"
></ng-particles>

function particlesInit(main: Main): void {
  loadConfettiPreset(main);
}

Svelte


<Particles
        id="tsparticles"
        url="http://foo.bar/particles.json"
        on:particlesInit="{onParticlesInit}"
/>

let onParticlesInit = (main) => {
  loadConfettiPreset(main);
};
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