# processing/p5.js

> 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.

- Magnitude: 2.6 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 24,227 total · +2 stars measured 2026-10-27, 11:42–13:28 UTC, ≈ 10 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Web & frontend · Language: JavaScript · License: LGPL-2.1 · Created: 2013-02-26 · Last push: 2026-10-27
- GitHub: https://github.com/processing/p5.js · Homepage: http://p5js.org/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/processing/p5.js

## 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

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-27 (UTC), 11:42–13:28: 24225 → 24227 stars (+2). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +10 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Over the last two days the pace is 4.6× that of the previous week and a half.
- GitHub Trending JavaScript today: #7, +27 stars.

## 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: 3,884
- Issues and pull requests: 9,191
- Watchers: 478
- Average over the last week: 11 per day
- Usual pace: 5 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: v2.4.0-rc.1 (2026-10-20)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-28 … 2026-10-27: 4, 3, 8, 2, 1, 6, 3, 5, 9, 8, 4, 8, 3, 2, 7, 6, 7, 9, 1, 2, 5, 8, 4, 3, 6, 6, 8, 8, 39, 2

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending JavaScript today: #7, +27 stars

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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 2026-10-27 13:44 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.