react-flip-toolkit VS framer/motion

I've actually made a card game as a personal project. Flip animation libraries were really helpful. Things like this: https://github.com/aholachek/react-flip-toolkit

My point is that there are already many libraries out there. With styling, input events and so on. For example, I use Blueprintjs in many current projects, which provides a large set of widgets/components. One of these is a spreadsheet-like table component with sorting, editing, reordering and more. I also use react-grid-layout for card widgets that you can drag and resize and react-flip-toolkit for animation, among other things. There is a huge React ecosystem out there and duplicating all of that would take far, far too long.

It's in the linked github repo. It's using react-flip-toolkit which is personally my favorite React animation library. Here's the demo.

react-flip-toolkit will help you achieve this. They specifically have a demo for this too.

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.