Does your animation lag? I think the biggest advantage of requestAnimationFrame is (as the name kind of suggests) to request an animation frame only when it is needed. Let's say you …

Aug 2, 2016 · The following image shows a frame (example rate 60 frames per second). The requestAnimationFrame callback will be called before the next vSync. It will be called as early …

Apr 9, 2011 · using this method with events such as scroll or resize in browsers who don't support requestAnimationFrame will fire the callback all the time, and not like intended, because the …

Dec 4, 2020 · But this trick may forgo the benefits of using the animation frame on some systems, like no flicker and shear. async function sleep() { return new …

Jan 23, 2014 · I have always thought that timestamp used by requestAnimationFrame is the same as usual timestamp in JavaScript, that is number of milliseconds since January 1st, 1970. …

Aug 7, 2016 · This is because setting .style.animation to the value it already contains isn't exactly going to achieve anything. requestAnimationFrame is usually combined with JavaScript …

Jun 14, 2013 · The handle returned by requestAnimationFrame is a request ID, unique to that particular request, not a frame ID unique to the frame. To identify the unique frame a given …

Feb 16, 2018 · i.e. you're setting up the initial state, and then doing the animation within a purely locally scoped function that's called pseudo-recursively by requestAnimationFrame. NB: either …

Jan 16, 2015 · Have a single requestAnimationFrame running, which computes the current animation time and calls every update and draw related functions. Then your animations would …

May 25, 2016 · The thing is that requestAnimationFrame uses no CPU power, and only draws animation that would be visible to the user (it doesn't consume anything if you swich tabs, …