EP 5 · 20 June 2026
GSAP is 100% free now — every plugin, including the paid ones
Plot twist: the entire GSAP plugin suite — SplitText, MorphSVG, the lot — is now free. The animation library that powered a decade of award-winning sites just got a glow-up and a price drop to zero.
We wire up the plugins that used to cost money, build a scroll-driven hero in a few lines of ScrollTrigger, and cover the one performance rule that separates buttery from janky.
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