Package

tsparticles-basic

Easily create highly customizable particle animations and use them as animated backgrounds for your website. Ready to use components available also for React, Vue.js (2.x and 3.x), Angular, Svelte, jQuery, Preact, Riot.js, Inferno.

v2.12.0MITESM + CommonJSTypes: BundledAnimation React

$ npm install tsparticles-basic

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Deprecated on npm

starting from tsparticles v3 the packages are now moved to @tsparticles/package-name instead of tsparticles-package-name

Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026

Weekly downloads: 32.6k; +8% over 12 months
Gzip bundle size: -; No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies: 7; Direct, from package.json
Last release: -; v2.12.0
GitHub stars: 9k; 944 forks
Open issues / PRs: 8 / 11
Contributors: -
Commits, last 52 weeks: 1,664

Downloads

Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21

Weekly npm downloads, one point per week, weeks starting 23 Sept 2025 to 15 Sept 2026. The y axis starts at zero.

32,627 downloads last week, 136,876 in the last month. The 12-month change of +8% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.

Maintenance

Releases, last 12 months: -
Latest version: 2.12.0
First published: -
Last push to GitHub: 23 Sept 20261 day before the snapshot
Repository archived: No
Open issues: 8
Open pull requests: 11
Commits, last 52 weeks: 1,664
Dependents on npm: -

Major versions

Recent releases

Compatibility

Module format: ESM + CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types: Bundled
Node.js engine range: Not declared
Runtimes: -
Unpacked size (npm): 607 kB
Dependencies (7): tsparticles-enginetsparticles-move-basetsparticles-shape-circletsparticles-updater-sizetsparticles-updater-colortsparticles-updater-opacitytsparticles-updater-out-modes

Install

npm install tsparticles-basic

CDN

jsDelivr: 678.9k requests in 30 days

jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/tsparticles-basic@2.12.0/
unpkghttps://unpkg.com/tsparticles-basic@2.12.0/
esm.shhttps://esm.sh/tsparticles-basic@2.12.0

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Sources: npm registry, npm downloads API, GitHub API, jsDelivr. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

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