SweetAlert VS react-spring

Sunday morning programming fun. Created a little game to compare items from a list head-to-head and pick a winner. Inspired from social media short videos where people choose their favourite food, song, holiday destination etc. There are some example lists of cities, movies, actors, fragrances etc to play with and you can create your own list of items and play.

Check it out - https://yash.info/head-to-head.html

I created it mainly to pick a favourite fragrance from my collection of 50+. Not only is a fun project to build but it also allows me to use some of the interesting libraries and code snippets I find.

Programming logic wise there’s nothing fancy happening here, just picking a random element from an array and doing some JS and CSS around that.

New thing that I got to learn was generating a random color of a specific type (pastel, fluorescent, light) by playing with HSL values in a specific range instead of the RGB.

Discovered https://arraythis.com to convert a list to a JS array.

Used SweetAlert https://sweetalert.js.org for alert messages.

Been coding for 20+ years and such little projects still give me the joy of creation plus you always learn/find something that you did not know yesterday.

SweetAlert is a gorgeous notification library you can use to replace built-in alert function in your JavaScript applications. You can include buttons and icons, alter the text’s color, and even add alerts that adjust in response to user clicks.

Are you sure you're using SweetAlert2 and not SweetAlert1 because your syntax looks like 1.

SourceCode | Demo

Import Sweet Alert to your project

sweetalert:

Sweet Alert - A beautiful replacement for success messages, error messages or info messages

Big question, though: Are you using SweetAlert, or SweetAlert2 ?

React-spring, tailored for React applications, offers a seamless animation experience across all major browsers with its uncomplicated API. It not only caters to web environments but also supports react-native, react-three-fiber, react-konva, and react-zdog. Its TypeScript foundation facilitates easy integration into existing projects.

For adding physics-based animations to React applications, React Spring stands out. It offers a spring-physics based animation library that greatly simplifies the implementation of animations, making them feel more natural. React Spring is essential for developers looking to enhance the user experience with interactive and engaging animations.

React Spring - You can find more information and documentation for React Spring on their official website at react-spring.dev. React Spring is a feature-rich animation library that leverages physics-based animations to create smooth and interactive animations in React.

One notable component in Headless UI is Transition. It provides a simple way to animate React Components, making it a great option for developers who want basic animation functionality without using more complicated solutions like React Spring or Framer Motion.

In an effort to leverage the extensive React ecosystem and the wide range of readily available tools and libraries, the Qwik team devised the "Qwik React" solution. This approach involves converting React components into Qwik components, also known as islands. By doing so, we can harness the power of React's vast ecosystem, which includes popular libraries such as MUI, ThreeJs, and React Spring, to enhance our applications.

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.

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