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title: "Lenis"
description: "Smooth-scroll runtime that virtualizes wheel input while keeping native scrollbars, anchors and accessibility behaviour intact."
canonical: "https://vibing.inc/library/lenis-vg-1497"
category: "Motion & Animation"
subcategory: "Scroll animation"
license: "MIT"
author: "darkroom.engineering (@darkroomengineering)"
source: "https://lenis.dev/"
---

# Lenis
Smooth-scroll runtime that virtualizes wheel input while keeping native scrollbars, anchors and accessibility behaviour intact.
## Facts
- Source: https://lenis.dev/
- Category: Motion & Animation / Scroll animation
- Author: darkroom.engineering (@darkroomengineering)
- Licence: MIT
- Tags: scroll, smooth-scroll, javascript
## Why it's a gem
The award-site default that replaced Locomotive; tiny and framework-agnostic.
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Listed in The Vibeary: https://vibing.inc/library/lenis-vg-1497 · JSON: https://vibing.inc/api/public/library/gems/lenis-vg-1497