Framer Motion, a widely-used React animation library, has recently become an independent project and rebranded as Motion. This transition introduces a new home at motion.dev and expands its capabilities beyond React, offering vanilla JavaScript APIs suitable for various frameworks like Vue. For the Multibe, integrating Motion can enhance user experience by providing smooth, hardware-accelerated animations across different platforms, ensuring consistent and engaging interactions.
I'm also looking forward to the Anime.js drop announced for January in 2025. That's going to be a crazy Performant animation library as well. I will be benchmarking both of them, especially because they are so much smaller than GSAP.
Yeah, I got the license change news from Theo as well, but was also supporting it for a while when it was still called motion.one and before it was acquired by Framer. Now it’s “free” again… most interesting it is available as vanilla JavaScript now. There seems to be a mini version as well. Looking forward to test how small this can actually be and what will be better at the smallest bundle size to polyfill the missing animation API properties in Hype.
