Phaser is a fun, free and fast 2D game framework for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile web browsers, supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering.


StageXL is described as 'API for HTML5 game and application development that closely models and is nearly identical to the Adobe Flash API. It's built on the Dart programming language and offers an intuitive and complete library for impressive 2D' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to StageXL for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, JavaScript, Mac, Windows and Linux apps. The best StageXL alternative is Phaser, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like StageXL are p5.js, Processing.js, PixiJS and GraphicsJS.
Phaser is a fun, free and fast 2D game framework for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile web browsers, supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering.


Processing.js is an open programming language, port of the Processing Visualization Language, for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions for the web without using Flash or Java applets. Processing.

PixiJS is an advanced, mature HTML5 creation engine with a fast and flexible 2D WebGL renderer.

Free open-source JavaScript library for easily drawing HTML5 graphics and animation. It is lightweight and more powerful in terms of out-of-the-box features than the existing SVG/VML based components including Raphaël and Bonsai.




Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. If you want to create your own specific chart or image crop and rotate widget, for example, you can achieve it simply and easily with this library.




Paper.js is an open source vector graphics scripting framework that runs on top of the HTML5 Canvas. It offers a clean Scene Graph / Document Object Model and a lot of powerful functionality to create and work with vector graphics and bezier curves, all neatly wrapped up in a...



melonJS is an open source HTML5 game engine that empowers developers and designers to focus on content.

Part of the CreateJS group of libraries, EaselJS provides straight forward solutions for working with rich graphics and interactivity with HTML5 Canvas. It exposes an API that is familiar to Adobe Animate developers, but embraces JavaScript sensibilities.

Pts is a JavaScript library for visualization and creative-coding. Pts is lightweight and modular. Written in typescript, it comes with many useful algorithms for visualization and creative coding. Its friendly API supports both quick prototyping and bigger projects.

faces.js is a JavaScript library that generates and displays cartoon faces, somewhat reminiscent of how the Nintendo Wii generates random Miis. Faces are drawn as scalable vector graphics (SVG). Each face can also be represented by a small JavaScript object, which allows you to...

Bonsai is a JavaScript graphics library. For the finer details, see the documentation (currently in construction).