Home Steps Following The Cursor (GSAP)

Title: Home Steps Following The Cursor (GSAP)
Have you ever visited a website where the homepage follows your cursor? It’s a simple yet engaging effect that can elevate the user experience. In this blog post, we’ll be exploring how to create this effect using the GSAP animation library.

Step 1: Set up your HTML and CSS
First, let’s create a simple HTML structure for our homepage. We’ll have a container div that will hold our content, and an inner div that will move with the cursor. In our CSS, we’ll position the container and inner divs, and set their dimensions.

Step 2: Install GSAP
Before we can use GSAP, we need to install it. You can do this by downloading the library from the GSAP website or by installing it using a package manager like NPM.

Step 3: Initialize GSAP
Once you’ve installed GSAP, you need to initialize it in your JavaScript file. This is done by simply calling the gsap function.

Step 4: Create your animation
Now we can create our animation using GSAP. We’ll be using the to method, which animates an element to a new set of properties. We want our inner div to move with the cursor, so we’ll set the new position of the div to the position of the cursor. We can get the position of the cursor using the clientX and clientY properties of the mousemove event.

Step 5: Add event listeners
Finally, we need to add event listeners to our container div. We’ll listen for the mousemove event, and call our animation function inside the event listener.

And that’s it! With just a few lines of code, we’ve created a simple yet engaging effect that follows the user’s cursor. With GSAP’s powerful animation capabilities, the possibilities are endless. Give it a try and see what creative animations you can come up with!

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