barba-js

barba-js is a skill for Claude Code from freshtechbro/claudedesignskills. It costs 81 tokens per session (4,881 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to Barba.js, a JavaScript library that changes page content and animates navigation between pages without a full browser reload. It explains the page structure, lifecycle hooks, routing, and page-specific behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding animated route changes, SPA-like navigation, or smooth transitions to a multi-page website, including sites that also use GSAP or other animation libraries.
Why use it?
It helps make a traditional multi-page website feel more continuous while keeping separate pages. It also provides a clear way to control what happens before, during, and after a page transition.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it when adding animated route changes, SPA-like navigation, or smooth transitions to a multi-page website, including sites that also use GSAP or other animation libraries.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/freshtechbro/claudedesignskills/barba-js
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add freshtechbro/claudedesignskills --skill barba-js
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/freshtechbro/claudedesignskills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,881 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket warn 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk warn 27 Feb 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00081 $0.04881
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.02440
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00976
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00488

Measured 11d ago against content hash 505abfc560b3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

barba-js scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/project_setup.py, scripts/transition_generator.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • barba-js — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
.claude/skills/barba-js/SKILL.md · 872 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 872 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Barba.js

Modern page transition library for creating fluid, smooth transitions between website pages. Barba.js makes multi-page websites feel like Single Page Applications (SPAs) by hijacking navigation and managing transitions without full page reloads.

Overview

Barba.js is a lightweight (7kb minified and compressed) JavaScript library that intercepts navigation between pages, fetches new content via AJAX, and smoothly transitions between old and new containers. It reduces page load delays and HTTP requests while maintaining the benefits of traditional multi-page architecture.

Core Features:

  • Smooth page transitions without full reloads
  • Lifecycle hooks for precise control over transition phases
  • View-based logic for page-specific behaviors
  • Built-in routing with @barba/router plugin
  • Extensible plugin system
  • Small footprint and high performance
  • Framework-agnostic (works with vanilla JS, GSAP, anime.js, etc.)

Core Concepts

1. Wrapper, Container, and Namespace

Barba.js uses a specific DOM structure to manage transitions:

HTML Structure:

<body data-barba="wrapper">
  <!-- Static elements (header, nav) stay outside container -->
  <header>
    <nav>
      <a href="/">Home</a>
      <a href="/about">About</a>
    </nav>
  </header>

  <!-- Dynamic content goes in container -->
  <main data-barba="container" data-barba-namespace="home">
    <!-- This content changes on navigation -->
    <h1>Home Page</h1>
    <p>Content that will transition out...</p>
  </main>

  <!-- Static footer outside container -->
  <footer>© 2025</footer>
</body>

Three Key Elements:

  1. Wrapper (data-barba="wrapper")

    • Outermost container
    • Everything inside wrapper but outside container stays persistent
    • Ideal for headers, navigation, footers that don't change
  2. Container (data-barba="container")

    • Dynamic content area that updates on navigation
    • Only this section gets replaced during transitions
    • Must exist on every page

Read the full file on GitHub · 872 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 872 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 505abfc560b3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

barba-js is a skill published in the GitHub repository freshtechbro/claudedesignskills (873 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 4,881 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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