Animating markers with plugins

In the next two sections, you will learn how to animate markers using the Leaflet.BounceMarker and Leaflet.AnimatedMarker plugins. Animation adds a wow factor to your map, but if overdone, it can make your map appear amateurish.

Bouncing your markers

The Leaflet.BounceMarker plugin does not have a large number of options to customize the markers or their behavior, but it provides a simple animation that is useful when you add markers to the map or on the hover event. You can download and learn more about the plugin at https://github.com/maximeh/leaflet.bouncemarker.

The following steps will show you how to add a bounce marker to your map:

  1. Add a reference to the JavaScript file. There is no CSS file required for this ...

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