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

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