Choosing the Right Animation Library for Vue.js Projects

[Hetari]

As a newcomer to Vue.js development, I'm excited to delve into animations and transitions. However, I'm faced with choosing the best animation library for my Vue projects. After researching, I've come across several options like Vue's built-in Transition component, pure GSAP (install gsap directly in my vue app npm install gsap), VueUse/Motion, or oku UI motion

I'm eager to hear from more experienced Vue developers about their experiences and recommendations regarding animating UI elements in Vue.js applications. What factors should I consider when choosing an animation library? Are there specific use cases where one library excels over the others? Any insights, tips, or best practices would be greatly appreciated!

Looking forward to your valuable input and guidance.

[nikuscs]

Well, Oku-Motion is just a tiny wrapper around Motion package for convenience. You cant really compare Motion and Gsap, gsap is a full fledged animation library, while Motion ( Oku Motion ) relies on Browser Apis mostly to perform animations. Motion will likely tick all the checkboxes for micro-animations, but you probably cant make crazy stuff like Scenes and etc, thats where Gsap shines.

I recommend reading https://motion.dev

Also keep in mind Motion provides the foundation for Framer Motion, so you can do mostly everything with Oku Motion that you would do with Framer Motion.

For me, Motion is perfect because its tiny & performant, does all thats needed for small animations if you are creative enough.Hope it helps and good luck :)