tanstack.com VS animxyz

- UI kit (I personally have good experience with React Material UI - https://mui.com/; there is also https://tanstack.com/)

I recently listened to a talk by Tanner Linsley, the creator of TanStack (React Query), about his personal experience in the open-source community. I highly recommend listening to it:

Link - https://tanstack.com/

tanstack router

Svelte doesn't use a virtual DOM and when it compiles, it only targets what you are specifically using it for.

The thing with Svelte is that for a big project (like an SPA) you're going to end up using SvelteKit, because that's where all the development focus is for things like routing etc... and SvelteKit isn't nearly as settled. As in, there aren't developed "patterns" for doing a lot of things yet so it's a lot of trailblazing. There's also some features that are missing and on the roadmap but SvelteKit just hit 1.0 in December (these are usually more obscure things but you will still likely encounter them if you're building something of moderate complexity.)

I still think overall it would be fine to use for a big project, but a year from now I think it will be a much easier choice. Something that is happening right now is a lot of big players in the wider JS ecosystem are transforming from being React specific to framework agnostic:

- NextJS -> Auth.js: https://twitter.com/balazsorban44/status/1603082914362986496

- React Table / React Query -> TanStack Table, TanStack Query: https://tanstack.com/

This has all happened in the last few months. So it's still new, and they're still improving as they move away from being React specific. People rely on those projects. As more move in that direction I think it will become easier and easier.

5: TanStack React

This is where the TanStack comes in. I really hope that the fact that the TanStack has all packages built in a framework-agnostic way will help adoption of non-React libraries over time. Think about it: If you need to fetch some data, render a table and maybe virtualize it - you can do all of that with the TanStack. And if you know how to do this in React, you also already know how to do it in Solid, Svelte or Vue.

Other popular packages in this generation include the tanstack series of packages:

Disclaimer, I'm the founder of AG Grid, however I'm also friends with Tanner. You can see from tanstack.com that AG Grid is both a sponsor but more importantly a partner with TanStack.

I don't use a lot of animations, if it's simple stuff I'll just do it myself. Have used animate.css before, it was quite nice, especially paired with wow.js. Have been meaning to try AnimXYZ but again, don't use a lot of animations so haven't been able to yet.

Vue handles it just fine with doing the hard work behind the scenes and just passing you some CSS classes to connect your animations to (and there are JS events to use as well if you need a JS animation). Main difference is Svelte gets the benefit of being able to do some fancier stuff like items changing order or doing more than just entering/exiting. Vue has this as well, but not as easy to use.

That being said I overall prefer the Vue CSS approach to animation, it inspired my brother and I to make https://animxyz.com which has been my most successful side project yet. We wanted to make it work for Svelte as well but they don't have the CSS classes so we can't hook into their events the same.

GSAP seems like overkill, these are simple css animations, animXYZ could do the heavy stuff for you but it shouldn't take that long to learn.

Documentation | GitHub

Slightly off topic, but I'd also recommend checking out AnimXYZ and has Vue-specific support.

Animxyz A tool that helps you create, customize, and compose animations powered by CSS variables without custom keyframes.

Adding animations to a web app can be a challenging task, so it’s natural to reach for a library to make it easier. AnimXYZ, a composable CSS animation toolkit, allows you to compose complex animations by combining simple utility classes.

AnimXYZ

Animxyz for Animations and Transitions

Have used animate.css in the past, was very nice and easy to work with. Animista and animXYZ seems cool too.