cmdk VS framer/motion

The Combobox of shadcn/ui used in the above implementation is a wrapped version of cmdk’s Combobox. I wanted to change the logic of suggest, so I added my own implementation to the filter as described in cmdk’s documentation. It seems that sorting is also possible. For example,change https://github.com/armandsalle/my-site/blob/main/src/components/autocomplete.tsx#L88 to the following:

For a company of my size and varied requirements though, the ecosystem saves us months of work since there's always a library to help meet the requirements. A specific example recently would be the need for a command menu, with React we can just take one off the shelf like https://cmdk.paco.me/ that with 5.2k stars we can be confident is stable. Compared with Svelte's https://github.com/rohitpotato/svelte-command-palette with 140 stars there's just more risk when deploying to millions of users.

You can either build a command palette yourself from scratch by using Cmdk or Kbar, or go with the SaaS route (e.g Magny) in case you want something readily baked.

It was strongly inspired by my good friend Paco & Rauno's cmdk.paco.me project :)

cmdk - Fast, unstyled command menu React component.

With that, there are a few different approaches for adding a command menu to your website: you can use an open source library (like kmenu, cmdk, or kbar), use a proprietary tool such as CommandBar, or build your own. This tutorial focuses on building your own implementation, however you may not need to depending on whether or not you're satisfied with the other options available.

The two most popular choices now (circa Jan 2024) are React Transition Group, started in 2016, and Framer Motion, started in 2018. I'm not too familiar with the former, so this article solely dives into the workings of AnimatePresence from Framer Motion and how it's able to enable exit animations.

Install Framer Motion with npm install framer-motion.

GitHub: https://github.com/framer/motion

At this point, I was already using a tilt component (react-parallax-tilt) in my portfolio, and after checking this page I had the general idea of how it should be done, a container with transform-style: preserve-3d, with two children, one tilt and the other an image, both having backface-visibility: hidden and the tilt being rotated to face backward at the start. For the animation, I decided to use framer-motion because I was already familiar with it and knew it had what was needed to get the job done (and I'm glad I did because later I needed to await the animation and it was easy with framer-motion).

Two of the most popular animation libraries for React include React Spring [26.1k+ GitHub stars] and Framer Motion [19.6k+ GitHub stars], but there are many to choose from. Arafat Islam has a great list of animation libraries here.

Why should you consider using Framer Motion in your React project? Framer Motion is a fairly popular and actively maintained library, with 19k stars on GitHub, and plenty of resources to support it.

Framer Motion has over 18,000 GitHub stars and 2.2M weekly NPM downloads.