@tsparticles/interaction-external-trail/README.md

tsParticles trail external interaction

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# tsParticles External Trail Interaction

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[tsParticles](https://github.com/tsparticles/tsparticles) interaction plugin for trail effect around mouse or HTML
elements.

## How to use it

### CDN / Vanilla JS / jQuery

The CDN/Vanilla version JS has one required file in vanilla configuration:

Including the `tsparticles.interaction.external.trail.min.js` file will export the function to load the interaction
plugin:

```javascript
loadExternalTrailInteraction;
```

### Usage

Once the scripts are loaded you can set up `tsParticles` and the interaction plugin like this:

```javascript
(async () => {
  await loadExternalTrailInteraction(tsParticles);

  await tsParticles.load({
    id: "tsparticles",
    options: {
      /* options */
    },
  });
})();
```

### ESM / CommonJS

This package is compatible also with ES or CommonJS modules, firstly this needs to be installed, like this:

```shell
$ npm install @tsparticles/interaction-external-trail
```

or

```shell
$ yarn add @tsparticles/interaction-external-trail
```

Then you need to import it in the app, like this:

```javascript
const { tsParticles } = require("@tsparticles/engine");
const { loadExternalTrailInteraction } = require("@tsparticles/interaction-external-trail");

(async () => {
  await loadExternalTrailInteraction(tsParticles);
})();
```

or

```javascript
import { tsParticles } from "@tsparticles/engine";
import { loadExternalTrailInteraction } from "@tsparticles/interaction-external-trail";

(async () => {
  await loadExternalTrailInteraction(tsParticles);
})();
```