processing/p5.js
- Total stars
- 24,227
- Today
- +2since 11:42 UTC
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p5.js is a client-side JS platform that empowers artists, designers, students, and anyone to learn to code and express themselves creatively on the web. It is based on the core principles of Processing. Looking for p5.js 2.0? http://beta.p5js.org
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About the project
p5.js is an open-source JavaScript library for creative coding in the browser: drawing, animation, sound, and interactive sketches. Aimed at artists, designers, students, and coding beginners.
Useful for
- Draw interactive canvas graphics that react to cursor and mouse
- Build a teaching sketch for a coding lesson or workshop
- Create a generative audio-visual piece for a web page
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Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 27, 2026, 12:50 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.
Why it’s trending
- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-27 (UTC), 11:42–12:37: 24225 → 24227 stars (+2). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +11 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Over the last two days the pace is 4.7× that of the previous week and a half.
- GitHub Trending JavaScript today: #6, +27 stars.
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
New stars over 7 days: 74. +95% versus the preceding 7 days.
Daily measurements · UTC
- October 20, 2026
- 4
- October 21, 2026
- 3
- October 22, 2026
- 6
- October 23, 2026
- 6
- October 24, 2026
- 8
- October 25, 2026
- 8
- October 26, 2026
- 39
Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 39 · October 26, 2026. Days with data: 30.
Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: October 27, 2026, 12:50 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →
Three GitHub discoveries in each edition
What they do, why they are gaining interest, and what to check before using them.
Editions at 10:00, 16:00, 22:00 MSK.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 24,227
- Today
- +2 stars measured 2026-10-27, 11:42–12:37 UTC, ≈ 11 by evening
- Forks
- 3,884
- Issues and pull requests
- 9,189
- Watchers
- 478
- Language
- JavaScript
- License
- LGPL-2.1
- Latest release
- v2.4.0-rc.1 · October 20, 2026
- Created
- February 26, 2013
- Last push
- October 27, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Spotted in
- October 27, 2026GitHub Trending JavaScript today: #6, +27 stars
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