You've probably come across websites with really good animations and wondered how you could create something similar for your own project. A lot of these effects are built using code libraries that developers share publicly on GitHub. And now, with AI coding assistants like Claude Code and Codex, you can work with these libraries even if you don't have much coding experience. In this guide, we'll cover four GitHub projects, what you can use each one for, and prompts you can try with AI.
Before we get into the tools, what's a GitHub repository?
GitHub is a place where developers store and share their projects. A repository, or repo, is basically a project folder containing code, instructions, and other files.…