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Add a celebratory particle burst to a like / favorite / reaction button. A delight micro-interaction that fires on user tap only (never on load), bursts on the "like" transition (not un-like), and ships a prefers-reduced-motion fallback. Use when a small, earned moment of positive feedback will feel good — and only one such moment per screen.

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like-burst

A celebratory particle burst for like / favorite / reaction buttons. Part of motion-anything; obeys MOTION-SPEC.md.

When to use it

  • Like / favorite / upvote / reaction buttons.
  • A small, earned moment of positive feedback.

When NOT to use it (restraint)

  • Destructive or neutral actions (delete, dismiss, close).
  • When more than one burst could fire at once — one celebratory moment per screen.
  • On load / autoplay. This must be user-triggered.

How to apply

  1. Copy like-burst.css and like-burst.js into the project.
  2. Link them, and mark the button: 
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="like-burst.css" />
<button class="like-btn" data-like-burst aria-pressed="false" aria-label="Like">♥</button>
<script src="like-burst.js"></script>
  3. It auto-attaches to any [data-like-burst], or call attachLikeBurst(el) manually.

Tuning

  • PARTICLE_COUNT / COLORS in like-burst.js (keep particle count modest — taste over spectacle).
  • Pop feel: the lb-pop keyframe (currently 420ms, ease-out). Burst spread: dist in spawnParticles.

Accessibility & performance

  • Honors prefers-reduced-motion: particles are suppressed, a quiet color/scale cue remains.
  • Animates transform/opacity only; removes injected particle nodes after ~700ms.

Framework notes

  • React: call attachLikeBurst(ref.current) in useEffect; or port the click handler into your component and keep the CSS as-is.