p5.js

Hello! p5.js is a JavaScript library that starts with the original goal of Processing, to make coding accessible for artists, designers, educators, and beginners, and reinterprets this for today's web.

Using the original metaphor of a software sketchbook, p5.js has a full set of drawing functionality. However, you're not limited to your drawing canvas, you can think of your whole browser page as your sketch! For this, p5.js has addon libraries that make it easy to interact with other HTML5 objects, including text, input, video, webcam, and sound.

p5.js is a new interpretation, not an emulation or port, and it is in active development. An official editing environment is coming soon, as well as many more features!

If you already know the basics of JavaScript or Processing, the p5.js overview wiki page is a good place to start.

If you have found a bug in the p5.js library, you can file it here under the “issues” tab. An indicative template for reporting an issue is provided to assist you (and us!) better.

p5.js library

To use the complete p5.js library, you can download it here. If you are interested in the most recent, less stable version, or even simply in (new!) certain components of p5.js, you can clone this repository and run grunt from the command line to generate the library from source. See the developer docs for more information about our build process to generate the complete as well as selective library.

You can also start with the codepen template. You may need to update the version of the p5.js library that is linked into the html section.

Community maintained typescript definitions are here.

Issues

Please post bugs in the correct repository:

• p5.js general and p5.dom: https://github.com/processing/p5.js/issues
• p5.sound: https://github.com/processing/p5.js-sound/issues
• p5.js website: https://github.com/processing/p5.js-website/issues
• p5.js web editor: https://github.com/processing/p5.js-web-editor/issues

Learning

Check out p5js.org for lots more! Here are some quick-links:

• Get Started: Create and run your first sketch!
• p5.js overview — An overview of the main features and functionality of p5.js.
• Reference: The functionality supported by p5.js.
• Learn: Tutorials and short, prototypical examples exploring the basics of p5.js.
• Forum: Ask and answers questions about how to make things with p5.js here.
• Libraries: Extend p5 functionality to interact with HTML, manipulate sound, and more!

Get Involved

p5.js is a collaborative project created by many individuals, and you are invited to help. All types of involvement are welcome. See the community section to get started!

Developers, check out the developer docs for more in-depth details about contributing code, bug fixes, and documentation.

Contributors

| Lauren McCarthy | Jason Sigal | Karen | Evelyn Eastmond | Daniel Shiffman | Casey Reas | Ben Fry | | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | | Kenneth Lim🐛 💻 📖 | kate hollenbach | Stalgia Grigg | Jerel Johnson | Saksham Saxena | saber khan | Daniel Howe | | Kevin Siwoff | Atul Varma | Jess Klein | uno seis tres | susan evans | Saskia Freeke | Phoenix Perry | | jesse cahn-thompson | Lee T | Chelly Jin | DIYgirls | lam802 | Maya Man | Tega Brain | | luisaph | AlM Chng | aarón montoya-moraga | Cassie Tarakajian | Niklas Peters📖 ✅ | Mathura MG | Yining Shi | | Jen Kagan | Jiashan Wu | Marc Abbey | K.Adam White | Joe Cridge | Michael Hadley | Todd H. Page | | Jared Sprague💻 📖 💡 💵 ⚠️ 🐛 | evelyn masso | Blaize Kaye | Sanchit Kapoor | Oliver Wright | Matthew Kaney | Spongman | | Claire K-V | R. Luke DuBois | Kevin Barabash | codeanticode | Bob Holt | Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo | Jordan Shaw | | brightredchilli | Derek J. Kinsman | harkirat singh | GoToLoop | Max Goldstein | XY Feng | Sparsh Paliwal | | Austin Cawley-Edwards📖 💡 | taseenb | Yannick Assogba | John Pasquarello💻 | Kevin Workman | gauini | David Wicks | | Guillermo Montecinos | Shawn Van Every | Sinan Ascioglu | Abe Pazos | Char | Gene Kogan | Jason Mandel | | Mark Russo | Jonathan Dahan | Darius Morawiec | Darby Rathbone | hrishit | Chiun Hau You | Francesco Bigiarini | | Fabian Morón Zirfas | Mike Anderson | Mikael Lindqvist | Chris | Max Segal | Tyler Stefanich | Dave | | Xavier Snelgrove | Gareth Battensby | Taeyoon Choi | AKASH RAJ | Kevin Ho | Harsh Agrawal | Luca Damasco | | Sam Lavigne | Epic Jefferson | Caroline Record | Christine de Carteret | Chris Hallberg | David Newbury | piinthecloud | | Paolo Pedercini | Jason Alderman | Jennifer Jacobs | Sepand Ansari | Val Head | Emily Chen | Ben Moren | | Rune Skjoldborg Madsen | Scott Murray | Scott Garner | b2renger | Craig Pickard | mxchelle | Zach Rispoli | | Liu Chang | Cristóbal Valenzuela | Miles Peyton | Golan Levin | feedzh | Chiciuc Nicușor | Ken Miller | | Chandler McWilliams | Jaymz Rhime | Niels Joubert | Utkarsh Tiwari | Arihant Parsoya | Brad Buchanan | Johan Karlsson | | Andy Timmons | zacharystenger | Brian Boucheron | sortasleepy | Kyle McDonald | Antonio Jesús Sánchez Padial | Brad Smith | | Vítor Galvão | Devon Rifkin | Emily Xie | Boris Bucha | Petr Brzek | Ramin | Arsenije Savic | | Luke Burgess-Yeo | Sun Lifei | naoyashiga | Jimish Fotariya | Jorge Moreno🐛 💻 📖 | Steven Green | Marcus Parsons | | Nick Yahnke | Anthony Su | kroko / Reinis Adovičs | Robyn Overstreet | Ben Hinchley | Max Kolyanov | Zeno Zeng | | Seth | plural | Lionel Ringenbach | Harshil Goel | Joshua Storm Becker | max_devjs | trych | | Alejandra Trejo | Prashant Gupta | Kai-han Chang | kjav | maddy | Christopher Coleman | Boaz | | Yasai📝 | Jay Gupta | Nitish Bansal | Caroline Hermans💡 📖 | Faith Wuyue Yu | Aatish Bhatia📖 🐛 | Mislav Milicevic💻 🐛 | | Yuting Lu📖 | Adil Rabbani💻 🐛 💡 | Pierre Krafft🐛 💻 📖 💡 👀 ⚠️ 🔧 | Zoë Ingram📖 | Aidan Nelson🐛 💻 📖 | Cameron Yick📖 | Tanvi Kumar🐛 💻 📖 💡 | | Katsuya Endoh |

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key)!

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