JavaScript Animated Starfield (HTML Canvas Using an Animation Loop)

Published: 04 July 2020
on channel: Mt. Ford Studios

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In this JavaScript tutorial, I show you how to create an animated starfield using plain vanilla JavaScript inside an HTML file. We create an animation loop using the inbuilt function requestAnimationFrame(). We set up the stars to be of random sizes and speeds, as well as having a random direction upon reload. You can download the tutorial code below. Here are the steps shown in the video:

0:00 Introduction and file setup
0:28 HTML setup
0:48 Constants
1:48 Canvas and context
2:31 Animation loop
4:03 CSS and styling
4:35 Setting up the stars array
8:14 Drawing the stars
9:26 Moving the stars
10:20 Cycle the stars on screen
12:00 Randomise star speed

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