# ivarvong/lantern

> Zero-dependency TypeScript library for animated, steppable code explainers: renders SVG in the browser, Node and Cloudflare Workers, with every step addressable via ?scene=&step=.

- Magnitude: 5.4 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 185 total · +67 stars measured 2026-10-24, 09:35–18:41 UTC, ≈ 86 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: TypeScript · License: MIT · Created: 2026-10-23 · Last push: 2026-10-23
- GitHub: https://github.com/ivarvong/lantern · Homepage: https://lantern.ivar.workers.dev · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/ivarvong/lantern

## Useful for

- Build a steppable animation of a code change and embed it in docs or a blog post
- Render a single scene frame as SVG via the Worker /frame.svg endpoint
- Check an animation for teleports and flicker with the verify:motion command

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-24 (UTC), 09:35–18:41: 118 → 185 stars (+67). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +86 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 1 day old and already has 185 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #117.
- About 12 forks a day — people are taking the code.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @adewale (246 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 5
- Issues and pull requests: 2
- Watchers: 1
- Average over the last week: 91 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 6

## Stars per day, last 2 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-23 … 2026-10-24: 96, 67

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #117

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-24 18:51 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.