Web Animations API is a plugin?

Question

JavaScript

You can create animations using the Web Animations API. Same as in jQ only on pure JS. Explain this feature appeared in ES6 or does it need to be connected by a plugin as an addition to standard JS?

Answer 1

And why this wrapper over the usual CSS properties when there are a lot of more convenient things than @keyframes, and a hundred times cooler - webgl.

Answer 2

The Web Animations API as such is a native feature of browsers, but the support so far leaves much to be desired and is not worth using in production.
For now, you can get by with third-party plugins and polyfills for this technology. As a native alternative, requestAnimationFrame remains (on which third-party plugins and polyfills are based)