Wes and Scott talk with Matt Perry, the creator of Motion (formerly Framer Motion). Matt discusses building intuitive tools, transitioning Motion to open source, and the future of web animation.

Show Notes

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
• 01:15 The Framer Motion story
  • Motion

05:16 What’s the status of Framer Motion today?

09:08 What tech is Motion built on?

13:40 Is Motion entirely WAAPI?

16:06 Why hasn’t the Web Animation API gained more traction?

17:46 Does Matt design his demos?

19:25 Performance and testing

25:34 Brought to you by Sentry.io

28:10 Have other animation libraries influenced Motion?

• Svelte

GSAP

Anime.js

31:49 Micro-Optimizations in JS

36:02 How do you test frame rates?

38:03 Graphics programming and shaders

• Maxime Heckel

Maxime’s blog

39:58 What is the future of Motion?

41:42 What’s the difference between layout animations and the Vue Transition API?

46:35 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs

Sick Picks

• Matt:
  • Grime music

P Money

Ghetts

Shameless Plugs

• Matt:
  • Motion.dev

Sponsor Motion

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