react-motion VS react-transition-group

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

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.

React Motion is an animation library for React applications that makes realistic animations easier to build and implement.

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:

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.

react-motion - A spring that solves your animation problems

Motion/transitions, powered by react-motion

React Motion is an animation library for React applications that makes it easy to create and implement realistic animations. website: React Motion You can create the animation like this... source

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powered by react-motion animated library,

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.

Oh, but not React; React wants you to suffer! (unless you use a library like react-transition-group, of course.

React-transition-group

There are a bunch of animation libraries to overcome this difficulty. The most famous is probably React Transition Group. There are also Framer Motion, React Spring, and Transition Hook.

Some React animations libraries, like react-transition-group and transition-hook, animate elements with manually configured CSS transitions. Framer Motion takes a different approach, by animating elements under the hood with preconfigured styles.

Popularity: 9.2k stars on Github, and more than 8.4 million weekly downloads on NPM.

React Transition Group offers a straightforward approach to animations and transitions by providing its in-built components such as TransitionGroup for defining animations.

For example, the minified version of the react-transition-group adds 13.5kB bundle weight to an application and it takes about 5ms to load up on a 4G network. For comparison, transition-hook adds only 4.3kB bundle weight and loads up in just 1ms. Its lightweight nature and its ability to render fast, optimized animations make transition-hook more performant than its predecessors.