react-transition-group VS framer/motion

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.

We use the React Transition Group CSSTransition. I think you could also use Framer Motion, but I've never really tested this.

With transitions that come out of the box with React do you mean React-Transition-Group ?

I don't have an answer to your specific question but I do have a recommendation that might help. Take a look at https://reactcommunity.org/react-transition-group/. It's very popular and used by MUI in their animated components. Even if you don't install it, looking at their docs and source code might help you get a better idea of how to do what you want.

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.

AutoAnimate makes for a smooth experience when an element changes in the DOM. I would like to compare AutoAnimate with React Transition Group, which is a simple transition library for component entering and exiting, but with some additional configurations.

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.

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

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.