In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Framer Motion — why it is so cool, and how it can improve animations in your projects.

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Show Notes

4:53 - The 411

• Previous knowns as Pop Motion Pose
• Animation library with focus on ease of use
• Utilizes both spring and duration based animations

7:19 - Pose

• Pose was previously more pose based - aka you made scenes and toggled between them
• This still exists within Motion as variants, but isn’t the main way

8:06 - The New New

• motion.div
  • animate prop is basically a live value for the animation
  • initial for initial state
  • exit for animating out with use of animatePresence
• Hard stuff made easy
  • drag prop
• Full control over properties like duration and easing
• Orchestration features, this then that
• Variants
  • Multiple scenes allow you to orchestrate many animations with a single state change
• Handles hover and tap easily
• Scroll values
• SVG path animations

19:45 - Final Thoughts

• Framer Motion is easier
• React Spring is much smaller
• React Spring makes very complex animation possible

Links

• Framer Motion

React Spring

Framer Motion Examples

Framer X

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