![]() Īlthough I mentioned that Framer Motion is a spring-based library, that’s not technically 100 percent true. If you pass a value of false, the initial state will be the value in animation and no initial animation will occur. This can be defined by passing the state to the initial prop. Let’s say you want it to start not from 0 but rather a visible value such as 0.5. In some cases, you will want to define the state at which the animation starts. By default, these all take equal amounts of time, but you can tweak that setting using the times prop if desired.īy default, an element will animate from where it is naturally styled to the state defined in animation. This will slide it 100 pixels to the right, back to its original position, and then 100 pixels back to the right. ![]() If you want it to animate through a series of states, you can use keyframes, which are an array of state values. This will cause the div to slide 100 pixels to the right when loaded. Any valid value you pass to animate will cause the component to animate to that state upon mount. The simplest of these props is animate and is also the one you will be reaching for most often. These motion elements hook into Framer Motion and accept additional props which define animation behavior. There is a motion element for every HTML and SVG element (e.g., ). How Framer Motion worksĪs mentioned, Framer Motion replaces HTML elements with motion elements. Lastly, since it is part of Framer and integrates with the Framer X design tool, using both tools can help make your workflow smoother and more efficient (I don’t have any experience with this personally, but I imagine they are great together). Framer Motion can also handle SVG animations, unlike most libraries. Some are simple, some more complex, but they all give you an excellent understanding and enable you to tweak to build your own solution. For most common use cases, you can find a CodeSandbox example in the documentation. The documentation and examples on Framer Motion’s official website are the best I’ve seen in an animation library. In most cases, you can simply replace your HTML element with a motion element - for example, div with motion.div, which results in the same markup but has additional props for animation. If most animation libraries use spring-based animations, then, why should you use Framer Motion? For starters, it has a great API that is simple and doesn’t fill your components with extra code. Tweaking these values will make the animation behave differently. Two values are used to define a spring animation: stiffness and damping. They don’t simply reach and stop at the end state they sort of bounce past and settle into place. They do this through physics principals such as momentum. Spring animations apply the laws of physics to have smoother, more natural animations. Easing animations simply don’t look natural or realistic with their behavior and set duration. The alternative is easing animations, which you create with CSS, e.g., 1s ease-in. Spring animations have gained tremendous popularity in recent years. You’ll need to customize these if you want different behavior. To learn more about Framer Motion, our tutorial will cover these topics:įramer Motion uses spring animations by default. If you’re currently using Pose, I would recommend updating to Framer Motion because Pose has been deprecated. ![]() One difference is that whereas Framer Motion only has support for React, Pose has support for React-Native and Vue. Like Pose, it’s built upon promotion, which is a low-level, unopinionated animation library, but it provides abstractions to streamline the process.įramer Motion improves upon and simplifies the API in a way that couldn’t have been done without breaking changes and rewriting. Think of Framer Motion as more of an improvement or reinvention of an existing animation library than a brand new one.įramer Motion is the successor to Pose, which was one of the most popular animation libraries used with React. If you’re like me, your first thought when you read this headline might be, “Why do we need yet another animation library for React? This is getting tiring!” Some information may still be out of date. Framer Motion tutorial: How to easily create React animationsĮditor’s note: This post was last updated 29 July 2021. I also like writing technical blog posts to help others with difficult topics I encounter. Glyn Lewington Follow Web developer with a focus on frontend, particularly React.
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