raphael vs framer/motion

raphael

JavaScript Vector Library (by DmitryBaranovskiy)

Data Visualization D3

Source Code

dmitrybaranovskiy.github.io

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framer/motion

Open source, production-ready animation and gesture library for React (by framer)

UI Animation

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framer.com

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raphael		framer/motion
	Project
2	Mentions	43
11,240	Stars	21,984
-	Growth	2.5%
0.0	Activity	9.8
3 months ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
JavaScript	Language	TypeScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

raphael

Posts with mentions or reviews of raphael. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-01.

Smooth Bezier on Canvas
1 project | dev.to | 19 Sep 2021

It would be very cool if html5 canvas implemented the Catmull Rom Spline but it unfortunately does not. The wonderful Raphael library used to have support for it.
Web Effect
176 projects | dev.to | 1 Mar 2021

Raphael - JavaScript Vector Library.

framer/motion

Posts with mentions or reviews of framer/motion. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-06.

How AnimatePresence in framer-motion works
3 projects | dev.to | 6 Jan 2024

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.
How can I make page transition like this using NextJS + Framer Motion?
4 projects | /r/nextjs | 7 Dec 2023
Smooth Scrolling with React & Framer Motion
1 project | dev.to | 14 Aug 2023

Install Framer Motion with npm install framer-motion.
5 Not-So-Typical React Libraries for an Outstanding Project
9 projects | dev.to | 3 Aug 2023

GitHub: https://github.com/framer/motion
"react-next-tilt" and "react-flip-tilt" NPM Packages
13 projects | dev.to | 2 Aug 2023

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).
Motion UI in React
2 projects | dev.to | 1 Aug 2023

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.
Best Animation packages for React.js , every frontend developer should use it
10 projects | dev.to | 17 Jul 2023
Framer Motion tutorial: How to easily create React animations
2 projects | dev.to | 13 Jul 2023

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.
5 React Libraries to Level Up your Projects in 2023
8 projects | dev.to | 19 Jun 2023
Best Animation Libraries For React🎉
7 projects | dev.to | 9 Jun 2023

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing raphael and framer/motion you can also consider the following projects:

fabric.js - Javascript Canvas Library, SVG-to-Canvas (& canvas-to-SVG) Parser

react-spring - ✌️ A spring physics based React animation library

Snap.svg - The JavaScript library for modern SVG graphics.

react-gsap-enhancer - Use the full power of React and GSAP together

d3 - Bring data to life with SVG, Canvas and HTML. :bar_chart::chart_with_upwards_trend::tada:

react-motion - A spring that solves your animation problems.

svg.js - The lightweight library for manipulating and animating SVG

three.js - JavaScript 3D Library.

heatmap.js - 🔥 JavaScript Library for HTML5 canvas based heatmaps

GreenSock-JS - GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform), a JavaScript animation library for the modern web

paper.js - The Swiss Army Knife of Vector Graphics Scripting – Scriptographer ported to JavaScript and the browser, using HTML5 Canvas. Created by @lehni & @puckey

react-beautiful-dnd - Beautiful and accessible drag and drop for lists with React