react-native-fiesta VS react-native-reanimated

Some of the good ones I've found: https://github.com/mateoguzmana/react-native-fiesta (Uses Skia which is great, but animations themselves are a tad basic. But it's a super new project)

If you need complex animations or you want to animate something besides native components, Skia is your choice. Skia is a base rendering engine for Flutter and Chrome written in C++. React Native version provides access to Skia API using direct JSI calls, which makes it close to native performance with minimum overhead. As a result, you can build animations like this:

Source code

Recently, I did some improvements to react-native-fiesta, in order to use one of the latest versions of @shopify/react-native-skia. The improvements are very impressive!

In the following sections, we will see how to use react-native-fiesta to add some animated balloons into your application with some few lines of code.

Supports Animation: Tamagui leverages the popular open-source library — Moti as a reanimated driver for animation libraries such as react-native-reanimated and React Native Animated.

FYI react-native-reanimated (https://github.com/software-mansion/react-native-reanimated) is not the Animated API from React Native. react-native-reanimated allows JS code to run on a UI thread that is able to synchronously modify layout, providing alternative synchronous ways for you to hook into the layouting. For instance, as opposed to the asynchronous `measure()` method provided by React Native to measure layouts, react-native-reanimated allows one to call their version of `measure()` (https://docs.swmansion.com/react-native-reanimated/docs/api/...) to perform the same operation on the UI thread, synchronously.

By using libraries like Reanimated, React Native MMKV, and React Native Skia, you leverage the native thread. However, I know there are developers building amazing things who think outside the box. I'm always thrilled when I read engineering blogs from companies like Netflix, Meta, and Shopify. They create solutions beyond the limits.

Currently having issues with reanimated (expo installs 2.14.4). My app will crash randomly – possibly linked to these issues here and here.

Reanimated is probably what you're looking for. https://docs.swmansion.com/react-native-reanimated/

One of is: https://github.com/software-mansion/react-native-reanimated/issues/2327

use third party lib that is a beast, but will require a lot of work and upfront knowledge (https://docs.swmansion.com/react-native-reanimated/)

Catalin Miron is also good. Reanimated 2 animations are still relevant. I also would suggest reading the reanimated docs here. That's how I find my way around.