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We dropped GSAP and got 31kB back for thirty lines of code: two smooth waves crossing the frame, one thin grey and one thick brand-coloured, over a pale background
Engineering

We dropped GSAP and got 31kB back for thirty lines of code

GSAP plus SplitText is 31kB gzipped. The one thing we used it for was a staggered word reveal on a headline, which turns out to be about thirty lines of DOM and one CSS transition.

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