I Made an Awesome Code Animation Tool

so i made a neat animation tool and im really happy with how it turned out. I think y'all might like it!!
check it out here (or dont whatever): www.animate-code.com/
also please dont blow up my server cause video processing takes lots of cpu thx :^)
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GitHub: github.com/joschan21

[@joshtriedcoding]

even my grandma said "josh this tool be bussin", what do y'all think?

[@taiyebnirjhor8414]

you should try

[@__alex.grae__]

Hömma, Joshi, deine App fährt mit'm Bus!

[@FabuBrik]

I do be bussin. Granny ain’t cappin.

[@greendsnow]

bro, reveal .js has solved this problem already...

[@joshtriedcoding]

hahaha

[@nazmulhridoy]

Josh, consider making this tool open source so that we can contribute to taking this project to the next level! :)

[@vaisakhkm783]

Let's be honest, first week he gets a PR nightmare and then no one even going to look at that code..

[@daylen577]

Very bad idea, open source requires maintenance and is a massive headache, especially for someone as inexperienced as this guy. If it took him two weeks to build this, imagine how long it'd take him to get through dozens of PRs

[@vaisakhkm783]

@@daylen577 i wouldn't say it's a bad idea... if he is not going to commercialize it, it's just a matter of putting it in a github repo and slapping a mit license on it... he doesn't need to accept or even check any pull requests or fix issues... also, two weeks is impressive right? things i estimate to be completed in 2hour always takes 2 weeks....

[@jacksonbourne]

​@@daylen577Thought I was the only one to think this. This taking 2 weeks is wild given there isn't much to it.

[@daylen577]

@@jacksonbourne Yeah this is an afternoon project at best, lol

[@khaledsanny4817]

This is what i call Software Engenieering ... research... errors ... experiments and though thoughts ... 😂 Good job dude.

[@unforgettable31]

With all due respect to the creator, this is just reinventing the wheel.

[@joshtriedcoding]

cheers man! appreciate that

[@karlnassar8646]

@@unforgettable31 if there's not an actual product for all users how is it reinventing the wheel?

[@ways.]

did you mean to say engineering ?

[@faraonch]

Thank you for sharing the process. As being in a similar position, creating products from scratch with same technology, it's a great feeling how others run through the processes. Well done.

[@AliBenj-so6om]

Good comment

[@farzany]

Wow I love this kind of initiative! Amazing work, going to use this from now on!

[@joshtriedcoding]

cheers man!

[@MikeDSutton]

Nice tool, thanks for releasing it! Found an edge case for you; since the diff only uses the plaintext rather than taking into account the syntax highlighting there is a scenario where the colour of a common token will change, e.g: `const x = test();` -> `const x = "test";` -- The word "test" jumps from yellow to red at the start of the transition. Interpolating the colour of each token as well as its position would solve this issue.

[@brianruizy]

nicely done Josh. This has so much potential !!

[@WebDevEducation]

Absolutely LOVE this! Can definitely see myself using this tool for my own short form tutorials!

[@sunejack7161]

Great tool! I love this innovative thinking and the initiative taken to implement it. Great job man.

[@WeeklyHow]

I'll definitely use this for my future videos. Thanks Josh!

[@Garkolym]

Glückwunsch zu 100k Abos :D Hast den Playbutton verdient! Das Tool ist genial

[@Mahfoudh94]

just respect for you, that was an amazing take, your videos never failed us.

[@NizzyABI]

This is gonna help a lot for the videos. Thanks Josh!

[@Diego_Cabrera]

Definitely using this in my videos. Thanks for the amazing tool!

[@zakir.nuriiev]

Cool project, Josh! Thank you for sharing it!

[@HugoOlsson01]

Very impressive. Good choices with the design of the site.

[@srujangurram]

Very dope ! Great idea and clean execution too 👏

[@muhamedkarajic]

Ty for adding this, really appreciate the effort.

[@MilMike]

wow! I was searching for something similar for years. Thanks for sharing it!

[@nazarshvets7501]

Such a great idea for problem to solve. Great content!

[@destroylevi]

very nice project. actually was looking for something to animate code for videos!

[@anlukinha8764]

Feedback: 1 - When the "Tab" key is pressed, it focuses on the "Preview" button instead of adding indentation. 2 - I noticed that sometimes code highlighting appears, so I assume you are using a "code editor" library (although, now I think it might have been the browser's language corrector... my mistake). Have you ever heard of "Monaco Editor"? (Probably yes, but it doesn't hurt to ask, right?) 3 - Perhaps consider implementing a resizable (code) window. Note: "Monaco Editor" allows for auto-formatting and auto-highlighting for multiple languages natively. It may also provide the option to add a "language picker" in the future. Congratulations for the app! I remember a few weeks ago when I asked about what you were using... I never imagined you would create a project like this! Best regars and good luck with your bachelor's thesis!

[@studyafa7159]

Can some please tell on which browser it is working well

[@Martin_Adams]

What a unique project and great for educators! I'd love to see this as a desktop app for a one time payment.

[@ridass.7137]

Thats super cool, congrats!

[@AustinShelby]

Cool project! This will come handy for sure

[@GreenCrowDev]

Bless you 🙏 I was really looking for something like this!

[@BlissfulGroup]

Love this tool Josh! Amazing work for just two weeks! P.S. Please be aware you can duplicate your way way passed 10 slides 😉

[@jupiter909]

Beautiful work, well done!

[@jterry92]

I just subbed. This is dope! Keep it up, man!

[@igors.2943]

Cool!! 😃 Great job! 🥳 Good luck!😊

[@ryzzlas]

Looks very nice! One question: Why hit the server to export? Wouldn't the client be able to do that?

[@vacek.1360]

This tool is awesome!!! Imagine that teachers at school will start to using it, i think it would be faster than typing whole code infont of class and also students will understand the code better because the website is clean and minimalistic.

[@noahpittman]

This is amazing!! If this were open source I would love to work on it. Gonna use this for sure !!

[@tomisloading]

YES I absolute LOVE this 😭

[@padione3540]

This is amazing! Maybe at some point you can give us a closer look behind the curtain of how it works. Especially the converting to video part 🎉

[@SteveBoyer10]

I don’t know how he renders the video, but I’d use Remotion!

[@TheIpicon]

great job, looks awesome Josh! good luck with the thesis ;)

[@TheIpicon]

btw, in my country we do only thesis for masters, so it was weird for me to hear that...

[@joshtriedcoding]

@@TheIpicon thanks! interesting, which country are you from? For us here in Germany we have a thesis for both, though the masters is much longer and the scientific expectation much higher

[@TheIpicon]

@@joshtriedcodingsame for us, but on bachelors we don't call it a thesis just a "final project".

[@NiklasZiermann]

Guess I've got a new tool for my video making process. Amazing work man! Ich bin begeistert :)

[@ananas32069]

Amazing tool! The nice feature to add would be support for multiple programming languages

[@joshtriedcoding]

oh yeah that's way up there

[@xskerrittx1]

I'd love to use this for Python!@@joshtriedcoding

[@georgekrax]

Great tool buddy! 🙌

[@johnefan]

This is really cool 😎 Well done 👍

[@promisefemi]

This is just amazing, DAMN

[@editdev]

awesome tool, I'm gonna try it out for some game development vids!

[@monterourena]

Omg Josh! This tool if amazing 🔥

[@amershboul9107]

man! im proud of you!

[@arthur_snow]

amazing josh!!!

[@raisisn]

Omg this is awesome, thank you

[@DomskiPlays]

Very very cool Josh! Things I'd like to see: All the config options like transition easing, duration, syntax highlighter/theme Also, it's unclear how to copy a slide so maybe a tutorial would be nice on the first visit?

[@joshtriedcoding]

yep i'd like to see those too!

[@ciach0_]

and maybe the delay until the next transition

[@CoryTheSimmons]

Pretty cool for people making videos or presentations. I'd love to see some more UI/UX work on it and accounts where I can save stuff.

[@DioArsya]

dang it, this is decent for 2 weeks and very usable 🔥

[@ilario-gd]

Hey man, first of all, this is an awesome tool! But I was thinking, what about a color palete editor, to have our own text color choices, background color as well, maybe even a font changing possibility? It's kinda dope but there's only the same theme available. Thank you tho!

[@CleverGeneration]

Awesome project Josh, thanks for sharing! 👏 What library did you use for the drag and drop feature?

[@AndreFelipeF]

great job man

[@vagnereix]

amazing josh ✨

[@mohammeddrgh5705]

this def going to my bookmarks , p.s : can you make some parameters where you can change the speed of the animation and the size of the text and when you add a new slide it automatically copies and pastes the old slide(s content in it , thank you anyway for this great tool

[@luccaparadeda1985]

Come on thsi is amazing, I already used It for a presentation for tomorrow! 🎉🎉

[@kalilsubaan]

Yo Josh great vid as always. Btw what topic you doing for your thesis? Im about to start mine. All the best!

[@joshtriedcoding]

it's about how generative ai can be used to increase profitability in e-commerce, even involving a prototype app I coded :)

[@esquilo_atomico]

Amazing tool Feedback: - It would be cool to be able to go to the slide by pressing its number when not focusing the editor - Would be nice to have a way to skip the animation on preview, maybe by pressing shift+arrows - Themes :3 - Export as gif (?) - Trap tab when focusing the editor - More languages supported by the syntax highlight thinng (Elixir, Rust, Python, Kotlin, Go, C) The tool is really bussin and has a lot of potential (now I'm subscribed)

[@monstajoedev]

This is amazing ❤

[@IIllIlIllIlIllIlIlI]

Love your videos bro

[@facundoflores4763]

Beautiful!

[@Sandleaf]

Thats extremely useful

[@uscjake868]

Very Cool. I was clicking the arrows that didn't work until I realized you said "Click the arrow key"

[@akuoko_konadu]

Thanks for sharing this 🎉

[@user-dh9rh3js3u]

Just amazinggg 💥

[@Marco-34235]

YOU ARE AMAZING

[@Nelson-Mehlis]

Josh you are awesome 👏

[@elixpo]

This is just amazing, please make it opensouce so that we can contribute more to it

[@Zizaco]

That's a pretty neat idea. But it doesn't work that well, some characters overlap and don't appear correctly. But I'll be definitely be using this if you fix these bugs. You should add some ads there to monetize this : )

[@deadlock_33]

Looks cool Josh can you make open-source so we also can contribute and make it more powerful ❤

[@thecastiel69]

Can you do a video about unit testing? Like, if it is important or mostly time westing, for frontend or backend, because philosophicaly I don't know why the idea stub and mock make sense.

[@vaisakhkm783]

Isn't better to do rendering in the client side right? So server expense will be reduced i am there are sure complied wasm ffmeg libraries are available

[@dahermora5976]

Awesome work, Josh! I've seen some people saying they can do it in an afternoon, and to all those people, I say, Talk is cheap, show me the code.

[@arbitervildred8999]

the algorithm looks like it could've easily been reproduced in python within 2 hours with word lists, splits, and such and since it's build frame by frame you could just make it exactly like an ordinary animation tool paste code in the first frame box, and hit new frame, the entire code would be automatically copied, so you just have to keep adding lines each frame and maybe play with a timer, speed, transition effect

[@sleepy-gogo]

I'd love to contribute to this project! Please make it open source so the community can maintain it!

[@kipchickensout]

Sooo the highlighting only works for JS? I really like the idea, had the plan to do that myself as well at some point but had no motivation, it looks really nice!

[@mohitcodeswell]

Happy to see not another clone video 😁, my man bought some real stuff.

[@ustav_o]

that is simply awesome. good job!

[@ComfyCosi]

this is awesome, are you going to open source it like your other tutorials?

[@Disorrder]

Cool! Let's optimize the calculations :)

[@charliemcguire4319]

nice one dude

[@chandrashekar316]

I assumed you made it oss, but alas Would be great as people would love to contribute

[@CodeWithMathias]

can we access the github repo ? i want to add some stuff for my presentations like add autocomplete and langage selection ...

[@SylixAI]

Nice! What library did you use for record the slides and export it as .mp4 file?

[@joshtriedcoding]

its a custom animation engine I wrote on the backend

[@bchr364]

very nice, do you consider to make it open source?

[@jayde744]

Mega nice!

[@herzog0]

Josh is the version of Syd from Toy Story that ended up doing really cool stuff on coding

[@bchr364]

Did you write this powerpoint(slides on side and preview) from scratch or did you use any lib?

[@slendi9623]

Cool, did you consider rendering with ffmpeg on thr client using WASM?

[@Soraphis91]

Just here to mention "Motion Canvas" which has a "CodeBlock" build in that does basically this.

[@12chachachannel]

Finally I can code with animations

[@codetech1165]

Hi Josh, I absolutely love your videos mate. and I was interested in knowing if one was to reach out to you for professional purposes, what and how do they reach you

[@nixonscherbarth1974]

This is a Gameeee changeeeer buddd!

[@code_of_honour]

motion canvas is pretty good for animating code as well

[@yichenchong7728]

Does it only support typescript/javascript syntax for highlighting right now?

[@user-qh3nq8np5i]

if you go in preview and go back, some text doesnt animate back the way it did, some buggy characters on top of each other, brackets glitching, etc.

[@milindjamnekar4019]

Yo thats the part of the engineering i want to do. I will start building something simple and eventually gradually step to difficult problem.

[@pelianneil7138]

So amazing. The only problem is that i want to animate rust code and when i write "fn" instead of "function", even after changing the file extension, there is no syntax highlighting

[@kushalpillay2677]

What if we took keynote and produced a large dataset of animations on various code snippets. Run ocr on it to calculate positions and new positions. Then we use what the model generates and animate it?

[@joshtriedcoding]

why introduce AI into a field that does not need AI? If you're just curious how well it would perform, my prediction is pretty bad because tokenization needs to be exact, something LLMs are not great at

[@Spooky.Studios]

i'm kinda late to this but is there other Programming languages in the tool? (C#, Lua, etc)

[@khalidsheet]

Awesome work Josh! I suggest you turn it into an Electron Application