Top 7 React Animation Libraries in 2022

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  1. react-spring

    ✌️ A spring physics based React animation library

    react-spring is a modern animation library based on the physics of springs. It’s pretty flexible and has some amazing features, including hooks, to help developers.

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  3. react-anime

    ✨ (ノ´ヮ´)ノ*:・゚✧ A super easy animation library for React!

    react-anime is a simple animation library inspired by anime.js. It wraps anime.js using a React component and allows developers to easily pass props to create animations.

  4. framer/motion

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

    Framer Motion has more than 15,000 GitHub stars and 1.2 million weekly NPM downloads.

  5. react-motion

    A spring that solves your animation problems.

    React-Motion is an animation toolkit that makes building and implementing realistic animations much easier. However, React-Motion can be hard to grasp for beginners. But it has good documentation with rich examples to help developers.

  6. Syncfusion React UI Components Library (Essential JS 2)

    Syncfusion React UI components library offer more than 50+ cross-browser, responsive, and lightweight react UI controls for building modern web applications.

    The Syncfusion Essential Studio for React suite offers over 70 high-performance, lightweight, modular, and responsive UI components in a single package. It’s the only suite you’ll ever need to construct a complete app.

  7. anime.js

    JavaScript animation engine

    react-anime is a simple animation library inspired by anime.js. It wraps anime.js using a React component and allows developers to easily pass props to create animations.

  8. react-awesome-reveal

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

    React Awesome Reveal is a TypeScript package that provides reveal animations using the Intersection Observer API to detect when elements appear in the viewport. Its animations are provided by Emotion and implemented as CSS animations to benefit from hardware acceleration.

  9. Nutrient

    Nutrient - The #1 PDF SDK Library. Bad PDFs = bad UX. Slow load times, broken annotations, clunky UX frustrates users. Nutrient’s PDF SDKs gives seamless document experiences, fast rendering, annotations, real-time collaboration, 100+ features. Used by 10K+ devs, serving ~half a billion users worldwide. Explore the SDK for free.

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  10. FFmpeg

    Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git

    Remotion has two dependencies. You need to install FFmpeg and Node.js before using it. After that, you can easily create a new React project with Remotion using NPM or Yarn.

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