framer/motion VS dnd-kit

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.

dndkit seemed very promising, until I realized the state of development [0], and critical performance issues if you want to use it for larger lists (individual issues linked within [0]). So it's fine if you need to use it for simple scenarios and a smaller number of items, but otherwise, it's inadequate in current state, unfortunately...The fact that the post was in Aug 2023, perf. issues still remain and there's low activity on issues in general, doesn't bode well...

[0] - https://github.com/clauderic/dnd-kit/issues/1194

Link: https://dndkit.com/

dnd-kit is one of the newest ones, it is modern, light-weight, and performant.

Website: DND Kit

Yup that's the one. Also recommend checking out [dnd-kit](https://dndkit.com), which we may migrate to at a later date.

You can drag and drop things in pure assembly by using native browsers APIs or using a library like https://dndkit.com/.

DND Kit is a React library for building complex drag-and-drop web applications. It provides a set of APIs for handling drag-and-drop interactions, making it easier to build custom drag-and-drop.

you can check https://dndkit.com for the drag and drop.

Dnd kit: https://dndkit.com/