react-motion VS d3

Compare react-motion vs d3 and see what are their differences.

react-motion

A spring that solves your animation problems. (by chenglou)

d3

Bring data to life with SVG, Canvas and HTML. :bar_chart::chart_with_upwards_trend::tada: (by d3)
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react-motion d3
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21,648 107,634
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0.0 8.0
4 months ago 16 days ago
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react-motion

Posts with mentions or reviews of react-motion. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-17.
  • Best Animation packages for React.js , every frontend developer should use it
    10 projects | dev.to | 17 Jul 2023
    Github repo : https://github.com/chenglou/react-motion
  • Top 7 React Animation Libraries in 2022
    10 projects | dev.to | 11 Aug 2022
    React-Motion is an animation toolkit that makes building and implementing realistic animations much easier. However, React-Motion can be hard to grasp for beginners. But it has good documentation with rich examples to help developers.
  • Animating in React (The Many Ways!)
    8 projects | dev.to | 10 May 2022
    React Motion is an animation library for React applications that makes realistic animations easier to build and implement.
  • How to build faster animation transitions in React
    5 projects | dev.to | 29 Apr 2022
    Here's a comparison showing how the transition-hook bundle size compares to other React animation libraries: react-spring, framer-motion, react-motion, and react-move:
  • How I built my portfolio using Next.js, TailwindCSS, TypeScript and Framer Motion
    8 projects | dev.to | 21 Mar 2022
    Framer Motion is a production ready animation library for React. I felt the need to add some "cool" animations to my portfolio so that it looks more alive and interactive. One can argue between choosing React Spring or React Motion but that depends on the use-case and since I've already worked with Framer motion before so I went with this.
  • Ask HN: Tech talk on power vs. utility in software?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Feb 2022
    Ah I found it. "On the Spectrum of Abstraction" by Cheng Lou (author of React-Motion)

    https://github.com/chenglou/react-motion

  • Best Animation Libraries for ReactJS
    1 project | dev.to | 22 Jan 2022
    React Motion
  • Clojure startup OrgPad is Top 3 on ProductHunt today
    1 project | /r/Clojure | 28 Dec 2021
    Thanks. Let me write some information concerning our ClojureScript frontend. We wanted to use physics-based animations using springs since only these animations make sense. Sadly the browser decided to only support silly animations which are described in terms of curves and durations. Spring animations are used on both MacOS and iOS and they look much better, since they have the natural feeling. Originally, we were using React Motion for them which would be fine for a small project. But running a lot of animations at the same time is very taxing since every frame of the animation has to go through React and all these layers. Therefore, I spent about 4 months completely rewriting most of our frontend code related to rendering and UI interactions within OrgPage. Unlike React Motion and probably any other spring-based animation library, we do not simulate these springs but instead analytically solve their differential equations. (Luckily I have a strong background in math.) I created the OrgPage https://orgpad.com/s/yRyR-GOU0Pm which summarizes math and my approach. Our animations code consists of about 5k lines of code where maybe 1k is the physics itself and computation of animation maps. The remaining 4k lines are low level controls where particular OrgPage elements are animated using requestAnimationFrame. We always calculate their new positions/sizes/etc. and apply DOM mutations, completely bypassing React, Reagent and Re-frame. There are a lot of clever optimizations to get the current speed. In upcoming months, I plan to investigate WebGL rendering which we could use to render larger parts of the documents, hopefully making everything even faster.
  • React Libraries
    28 projects | dev.to | 7 Dec 2021
    react-motion - A spring that solves your animation problems
  • ✨Top React Charts Libraries [2021]
    8 projects | dev.to | 27 Sep 2021
    Motion/transitions, powered by react-motion

d3

Posts with mentions or reviews of d3. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-25.
  • A visual guide to Vision Transformer – A scroll story
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Apr 2024
    Yes this was done with a combination of GSAP Scrolltrigger https://gsap.com/docs/v3/Plugins/ScrollTrigger/ and https://d3js.org/
  • Ask HN: Tips to get started on my own server
    19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Mar 2024
  • Full Stack Web Development Concept map
    11 projects | dev.to | 23 Mar 2024
    d3 - very power visualization library enabling dynamic visualizations. docs
  • Observable 2.0, a static site generator for data apps
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2024
    Yep, Evidence is doing good work. We were most directly inspired by VitePress; we spent months rewriting both D3’s docs (https://d3js.org) and Observable Plot’s docs (https://observablehq.com/plot) in VitePress, and absolutely loved the experience. But we wanted a tool focused on data apps, dashboards, reports — observability and business intelligence use cases rather than documentation. Compared to Evidence, I’d say we’re trying to target data app developers more than data analysts; we offer a lot of power and expressiveness, and emphasize custom visualizations and interaction (leaning on Observable Plot or D3), as well as polyglot programming with data loaders written in any language (Python, R, not just SQL).
  • Using Deno with Jupyter Notebook to build a data dashboard
    5 projects | dev.to | 17 Jan 2024
    D3.js: A robust library to visualize your data and create interactive data-driven visualizations.
  • What is the technology stack used to create these live charts?
    2 projects | /r/learnprogramming | 10 Dec 2023
    They are images so it could be any number of things, datawrapper, charts.js, d3.js to name a few options.
  • Animated map showing frequency and location of births around the world [OC]
    1 project | /r/dataisbeautiful | 5 Dec 2023
    I made this interactive visualization that attempts to show the real-time frequency and location of births around the world. A country’s annual births (i.e. the country’s population times its birthrate) were distributed across all of the populated locations in each country, weighted by the population distribution (i.e. more populated areas got a greater fraction of the births). Data Sources and Tools Population and birthrate data for 2023 was obtained from Wikipedia (Population and birth rates). Population distribution across the globe was obtained from Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (sedac) at Columbia University. Data is processed and visualized at a 1 degree x 1 degree resolution, each of which has a different probability of a birth occurring in a specific time period. D3.js was used to create the map elements and html, css and javascript were used to create the user interface.
  • How do you implement library types?
    2 projects | /r/typescript | 3 Dec 2023
    When I go to the homepage of types/d3 the only hint for any kind of documentation is what seems to be the main github page of d3. It's highly possible I'm missing something here, so sorry if I am but I can't find any documentation of how you are supposed to type these library objects.
  • The top 11 React chart libraries for data visualization
    10 projects | dev.to | 5 Oct 2023
    Website: D3.js official site
  • Frontend development roadmap
    9 projects | /r/learnprogramming | 2 Oct 2023
    D3js

What are some alternatives?

When comparing react-motion and d3 you can also consider the following projects:

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

echarts - Apache ECharts is a powerful, interactive charting and data visualization library for browser

framer/motion - Open source, production-ready animation and gesture library for React

GoJS, a JavaScript Library for HTML Diagrams - JavaScript diagramming library for interactive flowcharts, org charts, design tools, planning tools, visual languages.

rc-animate - anim react element easily

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react-flip-move - Effortless animation between DOM changes (eg. list reordering) using the FLIP technique.

d4 - A friendly reusable charts DSL for D3

react-dropzone - Simple HTML5 drag-drop zone with React.js.

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

react-parallax-tilt - 👀 Easily apply tilt hover effect on React components - lightweight/zero dependencies (3kB)

sigma.js - A JavaScript library aimed at visualizing graphs of thousands of nodes and edges