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KilledByAPixel/LittleJS

Tiny fast 2D/3D HTML5 game engine with many features and no dependencies.

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JavaScript
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28 contributors
MIT License
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How fast KilledByAPixel/LittleJS is gaining stars, and where it lands on Trendshift and GitHub Trending

Activity and trending

Stars, forks and merged pull requests each day or month, lined up with the repository's rank on Trendshift Trending

Sep 5 – Nov 4, 2026

Stars +200 in 61 days

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Forks +8 in 61 days

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Merged PRs 0 in 61 days

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Stars, forks, merged pull requests and Trendshift Trending rank, by day
DayStars gainedForks gainedMerged PRs
Sat, Sep 5, 2026+1+00
Sun, Sep 6, 2026+0+00
Mon, Sep 7, 2026+1+10
Tue, Sep 8, 2026+0+00
Wed, Sep 9, 2026+0+00
Thu, Sep 10, 2026+0+00
Fri, Sep 11, 2026+1+00
Sat, Sep 12, 2026+1+00
Sun, Sep 13, 2026+0+00
Mon, Sep 14, 2026+0+00
Tue, Sep 15, 2026+0+00
Wed, Sep 16, 2026+1+00
Thu, Sep 17, 2026+3+00
Fri, Sep 18, 2026+0+00
Sat, Sep 19, 2026+0+00
Sun, Sep 20, 2026+0+00
Mon, Sep 21, 2026+1+00
Tue, Sep 22, 2026+2+00
Wed, Sep 23, 2026+0+00
Thu, Sep 24, 2026+0+10
Fri, Sep 25, 2026+0+10
Sat, Sep 26, 2026+1+00
Sun, Sep 27, 2026+0+00
Mon, Sep 28, 2026+0+00
Tue, Sep 29, 2026+1+10
Wed, Sep 30, 2026+0+00
Thu, Oct 1, 2026+2+00
Fri, Oct 2, 2026+6+00
Sat, Oct 3, 2026+1+00
Sun, Oct 4, 2026+1+00
Mon, Oct 5, 2026+2+00
Tue, Oct 6, 2026+0+00
Wed, Oct 7, 2026+0+00
Thu, Oct 8, 2026+0+00
Fri, Oct 9, 2026+5+00
Sat, Oct 10, 2026+3+00
Sun, Oct 11, 2026+1+00
Mon, Oct 12, 2026+1+00
Tue, Oct 13, 2026+0+10
Wed, Oct 14, 2026+27+10
Thu, Oct 15, 2026+32+00
Fri, Oct 16, 2026+26+10
Sat, Oct 17, 2026+6+00
Sun, Oct 18, 2026+5+00
Mon, Oct 19, 2026+4+00
Tue, Oct 20, 2026+13+00
Wed, Oct 21, 2026+7+00
Thu, Oct 22, 2026+13+00
Fri, Oct 23, 2026+2+00
Sat, Oct 24, 2026+6+00
Sun, Oct 25, 2026+1+00
Mon, Oct 26, 2026+3+00
Tue, Oct 27, 2026+0+00
Wed, Oct 28, 2026+7+00
Thu, Oct 29, 2026+0+10
Fri, Oct 30, 2026+3+00
Sat, Oct 31, 2026+2+00
Sun, Nov 1, 2026+0+00
Mon, Nov 2, 2026+3+00
Tue, Nov 3, 2026+1+00
Wed, Nov 4, 2026+4+00
Total+200+80
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    • GitHub trending history

    Where the repository ranked on GitHub Trending, one dot for each day it was on a list

    JavaScript

    Aug 18, 2024Best #12

    #1#5#10#15#20#25
    Top 10
    Aug 18, 2024
    The left and right arrow keys step from day to day; Home and End go to the first and the last

    Mentions and achievements

    Where people are talking about KilledByAPixel/LittleJS, and every badge it has earned
    1. Nov 31 post

      • I asked Claude "make something cool with LittleJS" and went to bed. Woke up to 40,000 starlings. 🐦

        Read full on X, posted by @KilledByAPixel

        @KilledByAPixel · x.com

    2. 19 days earlier
    3. Oct 152 posts

      • One Engine for 2D and 3D 3D objects in LittleJS are regular LittleJS objects. Put a 2D game inside a 3D world or a 2D UI over a 3D scene. Shadow maps, lights, terrain, voxels, glTF, custom shaders.…

        Read full on X, posted by @KilledByAPixel

        @KilledByAPixel · x.com

      • LittleJS now does 2D and 3D! 🚂🎉 The same tiny, fast, open source JavaScript engine. Now with a full 3D renderer in the same canvas as your 2D game, level editors built in, a particle effects…

        Read full on X, posted by @KilledByAPixel

        @KilledByAPixel · x.com

    4. Oct 101 post

      • LittleJS Jam 3: Cash prizes announced!

        Read full on Reddit

        r/gamejams

    5. Oct 51 post

      • see it for yourself. 👀

        Read full on X, posted by @KilledByAPixel

        @KilledByAPixel · x.com

    6. Oct 21 post

      • It's fast. ⚡ I wanted to know how LittleJS really stacks up, so I built an open benchmark: sprites and lit 3D cubes, same test for every engine. LittleJS keeps up with the fastest paths of PixiJS,…

        Read full on X, posted by @KilledByAPixel

        @KilledByAPixel · x.com

    7. 2 months earlier
    8. Aug 171 post

      • Tiny fast HTML5 game engine with many features and no dependencies.

        Read full on Reddit

        r/coolgithubprojects

    9. 1 month earlier
    10. Jul 53 posts

      • LittleJS + ThreeJS 🤝 A match made in heaven for AI game dev

        Read full on Reddit

        r/aigamedev

      • LittleJS + ThreeJS 🤝 New plugin to use LittleJS as the game engine for three.js

        Read full on Reddit

        r/threejs

      • LittleJS + ThreeJS 🤝 New plugin to use LittleJS as the game engine for three.js

        Read full on Reddit

        r/LittleJS

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