processing/p5.js

p5.js is a client-side JS platform that empowers artists, designers, students, and anyone to learn to code and express themselves creatively on the web. It is based on the core principles of Processing. Looking for p5.js 2.0? http://beta.p5js.org

Stars: 24k
Forks: 3.8k
Open beginner issues: 9
Indexed issues: 401
Avg merge: 3d 16h
Merged PRs (30d): 25

Dominant language: JavaScript
License: LGPL-2.1
Last GitHub push: Sep 16, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted good first issue

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399 open issues indexed

Accessibility Features Proposal - Expand Web Accessibility module Open

Area:Accessibility Discussion p5.js 2.0+

processing/p5.js#6992 · 6 comments · 4 reactions · 2 assignees · Opened Apr 22, 2024
Does p5.Panner3D work? Open

Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

processing/p5.js#6939 · 9 comments · Opened Apr 4, 2024
Broken link in Slovak, Chinese, Arabic contributior _docs README.md Open

Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

processing/p5.js#6931 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 2, 2024
WebGL Feedback Loop Warning: Texture Read-Write Conflict in p5.js Shader Rendering Open

Area:WebGL Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

processing/p5.js#6928 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 31, 2024
Support for `.mtl` Files with Textures Open

Area:WebGL Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

processing/p5.js#6924 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 24, 2024
[p5.js 2.0 RFC Proposal] : AI-powered Assistance for a More Accessible P5.js Open

Area:Accessibility p5.js 2.0+

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

processing/p5.js#6888 · 6 comments · Opened Mar 18, 2024
Add a version of Processing's loadShader() function to p5.js Open

Area:Accessibility Area:Core Feature Request

processing/p5.js#6852 · 8 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 13, 2024
Allow p5 classes (like `p5.Color`, `p5.Vector` etc.) to be used outside of the browser (node, deno, bun etc.)? Open

Discussion p5.js 2.0+

processing/p5.js#6830 · 14 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 3, 2024
Introduce Depth Access for Filters Functionality Open

Area:WebGL Feature Request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

processing/p5.js#6818 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 17, 2024
[p5.js 2.0 RFC Proposal]: Batching for the rendering of objects. Open

Area:Core Area:WebGL Discussion Help Wanted p5.js 2.0+ RFC

processing/p5.js#6805 · 15 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 12, 2024
Force Git Squash and Git Rebase before every PR being merged Open

Discussion

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

processing/p5.js#6802 · 6 comments · Opened Feb 11, 2024
Documentation, FAQs & Guidelines on Licensing, Attribution, and Usage in p5.js Open

Documentation p5.js 2.0+

processing/p5.js#6800 · 1 comment · 5 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 10, 2024
Visual loading indicator fallback while assets are loading Open

Area:Core Area:DOM Good First Issue Help Wanted Internationalization p5.js 2.0+

processing/p5.js#6795 · 36 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 7, 2024
Ability to pass a W variable to WebGL texture mapping Open

Area:Image Area:WebGL Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

processing/p5.js#6784 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 1, 2024
[p5.js 2.0 RFC Proposal]: Add a way to simulate color blindness Open

Area:Accessibility Area:Color p5.js 2.0+ RFC

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

processing/p5.js#6775 · 6 comments · Opened Jan 28, 2024
p5.js + NextJS compilation error Open

Area:Core Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

processing/p5.js#6771 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 26, 2024
Adding unit tests for event listeners Open

Area:Events Area:IO Feature Request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

processing/p5.js#6764 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 23, 2024
Ability to change global opacity (similar to tint(255, alpha) for images, but for all shapes) Open

Area:Color Area:Core Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

processing/p5.js#6756 · 8 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 21, 2024
Add missing examples. Open

Area:DOM Area:Image Area:WebGL Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

processing/p5.js#6750 · Opened Jan 19, 2024
returnBlobOnly parameter in saveGif function Open

Feature Request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

processing/p5.js#6746 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 17, 2024
Translations for Sidebar in Contributor Docs Open

Area:Accessibility Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

processing/p5.js#6732 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 12, 2024
Defaults for buildGeometry Open

Area:WebGL Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

processing/p5.js#6722 · 12 comments · Opened Jan 9, 2024
Default camera view changed in v1.9? Open

Area:WebGL Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

processing/p5.js#6694 · 33 comments · Opened Jan 4, 2024
Update Chai assertion library to the latest version Open

Enhancement Unit Testing

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

processing/p5.js#6690 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 2, 2024
Refactor 2d_primitives.js Open

Area:Core Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

processing/p5.js#6686 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 1, 2024
Improve p5.Table.js unit tests Open

Area:IO Enhancement Unit Testing

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

processing/p5.js#6650 · 5 comments · Opened Dec 24, 2023
Drawn pixel using pencil on canvas is not centred Open

Discussion

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

processing/p5.js#6645 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 21, 2023
range function for iteration Open

Area:Utilities Feature Request p5.js 2.0+

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

processing/p5.js#6644 · 9 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 20, 2023
Include the same sketch multiple times on an HTML page Open

Discussion

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

processing/p5.js#6624 · 8 comments · Opened Dec 12, 2023
Style guide questions Open

Discussion

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

processing/p5.js#6607 · 28 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 3, 2023
Warning being logged in Safari when using a filter shader in 2D mode Open

Area:WebGL Bug Friendly Errors

processing/p5.js#6597 · 9 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 29, 2023
Use Cubemaps for Light Feature Performance Improvement Open

Area:Accessibility Area:WebGL Enhancement

processing/p5.js#6587 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 24, 2023
shader overrides image if shader uses texture uniform input Open

Area:WebGL Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

processing/p5.js#6564 · 6 comments · Opened Nov 18, 2023
Make noSmooth() set interpolation to NEAREST when used in WebGL mode Open

Area:WebGL Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

processing/p5.js#6554 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 13, 2023
Using a separate math library for handling p5.js's math operations Open

Area:Math Area:WebGL Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

processing/p5.js#6527 · 24 comments · Opened Nov 4, 2023
Contribute to p5.js WebGL Open

Area:WebGL Discussion

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

processing/p5.js#6472 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 13, 2023
render SVG by p5.image should be change Open

Area:Image Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

processing/p5.js#6468 · 6 comments · Opened Oct 11, 2023
CI Test Failing Around saveGif Documentation After Merging Markdown File Open

Bug Discussion Unit Testing

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

processing/p5.js#6465 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 9, 2023
Add arcVertex() for creating arcs with beginShape()/endShape() Open

Area:Core Feature Request p5.js 2.0+

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

processing/p5.js#6459 · 36 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Oct 7, 2023
Changing the FPS cap and manipulating pixels causes an permanent FPS drop whenever the cursor clicks/hovers on the page Open

Area:Core Area:DOM Area:Events Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

processing/p5.js#6444 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 29, 2023
Uniform Buffer Objects in webGL2? Open

Area:WebGL Discussion

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

processing/p5.js#6439 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 27, 2023
WEBGL became extremely slow since p5.js version 1.0.0 Open

Area:Core Area:WebGL Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

processing/p5.js#6438 · 19 comments · Opened Sep 27, 2023
Documentation Style Guide suggestions Open

Area:Accessibility Enhancement

processing/p5.js#6431 · 6 comments · 2 reactions · 2 assignees · Opened Sep 21, 2023
textAlign wrong for Arabic Open

Area:Typography Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

processing/p5.js#6392 · 7 comments · Opened Sep 4, 2023
p5 loadFont() and its dilemma with opentype.js Open

Area:Typography Discussion

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

processing/p5.js#6391 · 14 comments · Opened Sep 4, 2023
ES6 Conversion Continued and Modularization Open

Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

processing/p5.js#6371 · 14 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 22, 2023
WebGL Error Triggered by `noSmooth()` Invocation Between Framebuffer Creation and Drawing on Framebuffer Open

Area:WebGL Bug Help Wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

processing/p5.js#6369 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 22, 2023
Typescript cannot find changed() and input() methods on p5.Element from p5.dom Open

Area:DOM Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

processing/p5.js#6364 · 8 comments · Opened Aug 19, 2023
noSmooth() makes textures with NEAREST interpolation blurry Open

Area:WebGL Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

processing/p5.js#6325 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 3, 2023
Clarifying Doc Contribution Workflow Open

Discussion Help Wanted

processing/p5.js#6305 · 11 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 28, 2023

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