Best Animation Libraries In React

For React frontend developers, To improve the overall user experience of our application, we need to add some effects/animations to our application so that our application becomes more attractive & interesting.

To add animation in a react application is very simple because react provides us with a variety of animation libraries with the help of that we can implement animations on webpages / animate text or images to complex 3D animations that are simple & easy.

Let’s start with the best top 5 animation libraries in react

1. React Spring 
2. Framer motion
3. React Transition Group
4. React Motion
5. React Move

1 . React Spring:-

React Spring is a spring-physics-based animation library that powers most UI-related animation in React. This library represents a modern approach to animation. It is a bridge between the two existing React animation libraries; React Motion and Animated.

#The best way to add a react spring to your application will be via the package manager –

npm install react-spring
or
yarn add react-spring

Example:-

• In this example, we use (useSpring hook) to set conditions. 
• To let div know that we are animating the things you have to mention animated before that (animated.div)
• In the below example we will just fade in or out our sentence

2 . Framer Motion:-

Framer Motion is a production ready motion library of React from Framer. that makes creating animations easy & Even better, it has support for server-side rendering, gestures, and CSS variables.

#The best way to add a react spring to your application will be via the package manager –

npm install framer-motion
Or:
yarn add framer-motion

Example:- 

• Like react spring, here (motion.div) is used to wrap your object for animations.
• Animating a motion component is as straight-forward as setting values on the animate our props like animate={{ x: 100 }}
• Framer Motion is a very strong / highly customize, and powerful library.

3 . React Transition Group: –

The transition component lets you describe a transition from one component state to another. Most commonly it’s used to animate the mounting and unmounting of a component, If you’re using transitions in CSS, you’ll probably want to use CSSTransition instead. 

#The best way to add a react spring to your application will be via the package manager –

npm install react-transition-group –save
or
yarn add react-transition-group

Example –

• React Transition Group uses built-in components such as Transition to add animation and transition to elements
•  It only tracks “enter” and “exit” states for the components.
• For Know More about it Refer to the link React Transition Group.

4 . React Motion:-

React Motion is another popular library that allows you to create realistic animations easily. it provides five different components & Each of which has a unique purpose:

• spring — Helper function to guide how a component animates.
• presets — Pre-defined animation object.
• Motion — Component used to animate a component.
• StaggeredMotion — Component used to animate components whose animation depends on each other.
• TransitionMotion — Component used to animate the mounting and unmounting of components.s.

# The best way to add a react spring to your application will be via the package manager –

npm i react-motion
or
yarn add react-motion

Example:-

• In this example, we are using the spring motion component 
• It is just a simple example to animate counter 0 to 9.
•  A style prop is an object that defines the value of style at any given point.
• If the value of the default style is to the original style, then style is a final style that the component animates to 
• Style prop values are determined using the spring() helper function.
• For More examples or to learn more visit React Motion.

5 . React Move:-

React Move is a simple library that allows you to create data-driven animations using React. Fine-grained control of delay, duration, and easing. also Custom tweening functions.

# The best way to add a react spring to your application will be via the package manager –

npm install react-move
or
yarn add react-move

Example:-

• Inside the animate tag use start, update, and Leave Methods 
• For more Info Refer React-Move.

AOS animation: –

AOS is the easiest way to set the animation to your react app using Aos Library with the help of hooks.

# The best way to add a react spring to your application will be via the package manager –

npm i react-aos
or
yarn add react-aos

Example:-

• Inside use effect mention Aos with duration 
• Add (data-aos=’fade-up’) in that HTML tag that you want to animate with the effect value inside it.
• For more info Visit Aos.

In this blog, we learn about React Libraries for animations & steps to apply animations as well as transitions, and motions. Hopes you like this blog and it’s helpful to you. Thanks for reading this Blog.