Truus.co — Awwward-Winning Web Design Clone

A highly interactive, visually stunning recreation of the Truus.co website, rebuilt as a Next.js + React application. This project captures the bold aesthetics, playful interactivity, and smooth motion design characteristic of Awwward-winning websites — with every pixel and every frame of animation faithfully recreated.

Header Section	HorizontalWords Section
MotionCard Section	Service Card Section
Double Marquee Section	Footer Section

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🚀 Overview

This project is a high-fidelity clone of the Truus advertising agency website. The codebase was originally built in vanilla HTML/CSS/JS and has been fully transformed to Next.js 15 + React 19, with all animations, interactions, and assets ported 1:1.

⚠️ Note on the Hero Video

The original Truus.co website uses a privately-hosted Vimeo video. Due to Vimeo's Domain-Level Privacy Settings, the video is restricted to the truus.co domain. The hero component uses a standard HTML5 <video> element with the src commented out, rendering a solid dark background. Place your .mp4 in public/ and update the source in VimeoHero.jsx.

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✨ Key Features

🎭 Animations & Effects

• GSAP InertiaPlugin Fling — Motion cards and floating labels track mouse velocity; on mouseleave they fling with physics-based inertia and snap back to position.
• Page Transition Scribble — Full-screen GSAP-powered scribble mask that draws/undraws on logo click, with random color selection, logo wiggle, and auto-scroll to top.
• Elastic Card Interactions — Service cards spread apart horizontally on hover with elastic bounce physics; hovered card scales up. On mobile, cards stack and reveal via scroll.
• Scroll-Triggered SVG Draws — Hand-drawn underlines and paths animate in via stroke-dasharray as the user scrolls past.
• Footer Sticker Proximity Push — Stickers react to fast cursor swipes nearby with strength proportional to speed, then spring back elastically.
• Wiggle System — Configurable per-element rotation wiggle on hover, controlled from a single WIGGLE_CONFIG object.
• Custom Cursor Bubble — GSAP-tracked blob that follows the cursor, pops in elastically over clickable elements with context-aware text.
• Mute Bubble — Separate cursor-following blob on the video hero with mute/unmute states.
• Double Marquee — Infinite scrolling brand logos with smart randomization (no adjacent duplicates for logos or colors, even at the loop seam).
• Credits Pop-out — Footer credits box physically grows/shrinks with staggered text slide animations.
• Lenis Smooth Scroll — Buttery-smooth page scrolling synced with GSAP's ticker.
• Horizontal Scroll & Letter Bounce — Pinned section that scrolls letters horizontally across the screen with random elastic bounces for letters and stickers as they enter the viewport.
• Tab Title Change — Title becomes "Hey, over here! 👋" when the tab loses focus.

🏗️ Architecture

• React Component Architecture — Every section is a clean, isolated component.
• Modular CSS — 11 partial stylesheets imported via a single globals.css entry point.
• External SVG Assets — Decorative SVGs extracted to organized folders for clean, readable components.
• Centralized Data — All static data (brands, cards, icons, configs) exported from lib/data.js.
• Self-Hosted Assets — All fonts, brand logos, stickers, and SVGs stored locally — zero CDN dependency.

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🛠️ Tech Stack

Technology	Purpose
Next.js 15	React framework, App Router, file-based routing
React 19	Component-based UI architecture
Vanilla CSS	Full design system via CSS Variables — zero Tailwind
GSAP + ScrollTrigger + InertiaPlugin	All animations, scroll-driven effects, physics-based fling
Lenis	Ultra-smooth inertia scrolling

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📦 Project Structure

truus/
├── app/
│   ├── styles/                  # Modular CSS partials
│   │   ├── base.css             # Fonts, CSS variables, reset, body/html
│   │   ├── navbar.css           # Navbar, logos, header hero
│   │   ├── hero.css             # Content section title + underline SVG
│   │   ├── vimeo-hero.css       # Vimeo hero video player + headline
│   │   ├── motion-cards.css     # MotionCard section (heading + cards + labels)
│   │   ├── showreel.css         # Showreel section placeholder
│   │   ├── cards.css            # Service cards, stickers
│   │   ├── marquee.css          # Double marquee section + animations
│   │   ├── footer.css           # Footer layout, credits, stickers
│   │   ├── cursor.css           # Custom cursor bubble + scribble overlay
│   │   ├── horizontal-words.css # Horizontal scrolling section styles
│   │   └── responsive.css       # All media queries (tablet + mobile)
│   ├── globals.css              # Entry point — imports all partials
│   ├── layout.jsx               # Root layout — <html>, metadata, favicon
│   └── page.jsx                 # Main page — assembles all components
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├── components/
│   ├── CursorBubble.jsx         # Custom "click" cursor bubble with GSAP tracking
│   ├── DoubleMarquee.jsx        # Randomised logo marquee + scroll-triggered SVGs
│   ├── Footer.jsx               # Footer — credits, stickers, socials, wiggles
│   ├── HorizontalWords.jsx      # Pinned section with elastic letter bounce
│   ├── MotionCards.jsx          # Motion cards + floating labels + InertiaPlugin fling
│   ├── Navbar.jsx               # Fixed navbar + scroll color logic + logo wiggle
│   ├── ServiceCards.jsx         # "Call us if you need" + 5 service cards
│   ├── Showreel.jsx             # Showreel section placeholder (coming soon)
│   ├── SmoothScroll.jsx         # Lenis init + GSAP ticker sync (renders null)
│   ├── SvgSymbols.jsx           # Hidden SVG <symbol> defs (bullet, card divider)
│   ├── TransitionScribble.jsx   # Full-screen scribble mask on logo click
│   └── VimeoHero.jsx            # Video hero — controls, mute bubble, headline
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├── lib/
│   └── data.js                  # All static data as ES module exports
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├── public/
│   ├── assets/
│   │   ├── Brand Logos SVG/     # 8 self-hosted marquee brand logos
│   │   ├── Card-Sticker SVG/    # Stickers overlaying service cards
│   │   ├── Cursor SVG/          # Custom cursor SVG states
│   │   ├── Footer-Sticker SVG/  # 6 decorative footer stickers
│   │   ├── Marquee-blob SVG/    # Blob + hand in marquee section
│   │   ├── MotionCard SVG/      # Motion card blob + underline
│   │   ├── Navbar SVG/          # Navbar blob + work icon
│   │   └── VimeoHero SVG/       # Smiley, star, oval underline, mute blob
│   └── fonts/
│       ├── DMSans-VariableFont_opsz,wght.ttf
│       └── Epilogue-VariableFont_wght.ttf
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├── .gitignore
├── jsconfig.json                # @/ import alias configuration
├── next.config.mjs              # Next.js config with webpack @/ alias
├── package.json
└── README.md

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🎬 Animation Catalog

Animation	Component	Type
Inertia fling (cards)	MotionCards	GSAP InertiaPlugin
Inertia fling (labels)	MotionCards	GSAP InertiaPlugin
Page transition scribble	TransitionScribble	GSAP Timeline
Card fan-out on hover	ServiceCards	GSAP Elastic
Mobile card scroll stack	ServiceCards	GSAP ScrollTrigger
SVG underline draw	ServiceCards	GSAP stroke animation
Marquee infinite scroll	DoubleMarquee	CSS Keyframes
Marquee SVG reveal	DoubleMarquee	GSAP ScrollTrigger
Sticker scroll pop-up	Footer	GSAP ScrollTrigger + back.out
Sticker proximity push	Footer	GSAP Elastic
Credits pop-out/collapse	Footer	GSAP Timeline
Map link draw	Footer	GSAP stroke animation
Cursor bubble follow	CursorBubble	GSAP quickTo
Mute bubble follow	VimeoHero	GSAP quickTo
Wiggle on hover	Navbar, Footer	GSAP steps(1) yoyo
Horizontal scroll & pin	HorizontalWords	GSAP ScrollTrigger
Letter & sticker bounce	HorizontalWords	GSAP Elastic (Scroll)
SVG arrow draw	HorizontalWords	GSAP stroke animation
Lenis smooth scroll	SmoothScroll	Lenis + GSAP ticker
Tab title change	SmoothScroll	Visibility API

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📊 lib/data.js — Centralized Data

All static data lives in lib/data.js as named ES module exports:

Export	Purpose
brands[]	8 brand objects { name, src } pointing to /public/assets/
colors[]	Background colour pool for the marquee
SOCIAL_ICONS[]	LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok — href + SVG markup
CARDS_DATA[]	5 service card definitions with color, sticker, title, services
WIGGLE_CONFIG	Single source of truth for all hover-wiggle intensities
ANIMATION_CONFIG	Scribble transition timing and stroke width settings

WIGGLE_CONFIG — Tune all wiggles from one place

export const WIGGLE_CONFIG = {
    logoTruus:  4,  // The navbar Truus logo
    socials:    5,  // LinkedIn / Instagram / TikTok icons
    jobHeading: 1,  // "not hiring right now" heading
    googleMap:  1,  // Google Maps link text
    email:      1,  // hello@truus.co
    whatsapp:   1,  // send us a whatsapp
};

Higher number = more rotation (degrees). Set to 0 to disable for any element.

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🎲 Marquee Randomisation Logic

The marquee uses two constraint-aware helpers in components/DoubleMarquee.jsx:

• shuffleNoAdjacentSrc(brands) — Fisher-Yates shuffle + post-processing to ensure no two cards with the same logo appear next to each other, including at the loop seam.
• assignColorsNoAdjacent(count, colors) — Assigns background colours one-by-one, always excluding the previous colour (and the first colour on the last item, to fix the seam).

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🎨 SVG Architecture

All SVGs are handled using one of three strategies:

Strategy	Used For	Why
External .svg + <img>	Brand logos, stickers, blobs, decorative shapes	Clean components; best for large, non-reused shapes
Inline <symbol> + <use>	Repeated icons (bullet-icon, card-divider)	Defined once in SvgSymbols.jsx, rendered many times; supports currentColor
Inline <svg>	Animated paths (map link draw, control icons)	Required for stroke-dasharray animations and React state-driven rendering

SVG Asset Folders

Folder	Contents
Brand Logos SVG/	8 marquee brand logos
Card-Sticker SVG/	5 stickers for service cards
Cursor SVG/	Custom cursor states
Footer-Sticker SVG/	6 decorative footer stickers
Marquee-blob SVG/	Blob + pointing hand
MotionCard SVG/	Blue blob + wavy underline
Navbar SVG/	Navbar blob + work icon
VimeoHero SVG/	Smiley face, pink star, oval underline, mute blob

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⚙️ Setup & Installation

This project uses Next.js, so you need Node.js installed.

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/Thakuma07/Truus.co-Awwward-Website.git
   cd truus

2. Install dependencies:

   npm install

3. Start the development server:

   npm run dev

4. Open in your browser:

   http://localhost:3000
   

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👨‍💻 Developed By

Made with ❤️ by Arkyadeep Pal, Soumyakanta Mitra and Anshu Ram, powered by Antigravity AI.

📄 License

This project is for educational and portfolio purposes. All original brand assets belong to Truus.co.