Best Animation Libraries For React🎉

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  1. react-spring

    ✌️ A spring physics based React animation library

    React-spring is a spring-physics-based animation library that should cover most of your UI-related animation needs. It gives you flexible tools to confidently cast your ideas into moving interfaces.

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  3. tsParticles

    tsParticles - Easily create highly customizable JavaScript particles effects, confetti explosions and fireworks animations and use them as animated backgrounds for your website. Ready to use components available for React.js, Vue.js (2.x and 3.x), Angular, Svelte, jQuery, Preact, Inferno, Solid, Riot and Web Components.

    tsParticles - Easily create highly customizable particles, confetti, and fireworks animations and use them as animated backgrounds for your website. Ready-to-use components available for Reacts, Angular, Svelte, and Web Components.

  4. framer/motion

    Discontinued Open source, production-ready animation and gesture library for React [Moved to: https://github.com/motiondivision/motion] (by framer)

    Framer Motion has over 18,000 GitHub stars and 2.2M weekly NPM downloads.

  5. GreenSock-JS

    GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform), a JavaScript animation library for the modern web

    Green Sock has over 16,400 GitHub stars and 400k weekly NPM downloads.

  6. react-awesome-reveal

    React components to add reveal animations using the Intersection Observer API and CSS Animations.

    React Awesome Reveal has more than 873 GitHub stars and 10,000 weekly NPM downloads.

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