Super simple replacement for GSAP's SplitText. Not as robust, but it's editable.

TextSplit.js

/**
 * splitText - function to split words into html elements based on words and characters
 * @param html text to split
 * @param options optional parameters 
 * @example splitText('some text', {
 *  wordClass: 'word',
 *  charClass: 'char',
 *  chars: true,
 * })
 */
const splitText = (html, options=null) => {
    options = options || {}
    options.wordClass = options.wordClass || 'ts-word'
    options.charClass = options.charClass || 'ts-char'
    let words = html.split(' ')
    words = words.map(word => {
        let letters = word
        if(options.chars){
            letters = word.split('').map(letter => 
                `<span class="${options.charClass}">${letter}</span>`
            ).join('')
        }
        return `<span class="${options.wordClass}">${letters}</span>`
    })
    return words.join(' ')
}