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Best JavaScript & CSS Animation Libraries for UI Designers

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by Sri Balaji J dot icon Updated: Jul 5, 2022

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Animation is a method in which figures are manipulated to appear as moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Today, most animations are made with computer-generated imagery (CGI). For easier animation, there are many libraries and frameworks in various languages. With the help of these, we could make animations for movies and games in a simpler way. Here I've listed some of such libraries which can be used to get into animation.

Lottie.js A Lottie is a JSON-based animation file format that enables designers to ship animations on any platform as easily as shipping static assets. They are small files that work on any device and can scale up or down without pixelation. Animate.css Animate.css is a library of ready-to-use, cross-browser animations for use in your web projects. Animate.css is a fast and efficient solution for adding CSS animations. Using it can speed up your workflow and create more readable code. Great for emphasis, home pages, sliders, and attention-guiding hints. GreenSock (GSAP) The GreenSock Animation Platform (GSAP) animates anything JavaScript can touch (CSS properties, SVG, React, canvas, generic objects, whatever) and solves countless browser inconsistencies, all with blazing speed (up to 20x faster than jQuery).

lottie-react-nativeby lottie-react-native

Kotlin doticonstar image 15865 doticonVersion:v5.1.6doticon
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Lottie wrapper for React Native.

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            lottie-react-nativeby lottie-react-native

            Kotlin doticon star image 15865 doticonVersion:v5.1.6doticon License: Permissive (Apache-2.0)

            Lottie wrapper for React Native.
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                      animate.cssby animate-css

                      CSS doticonstar image 77938 doticonVersion:v4.1.1doticon
                      License: Others (Non-SPDX)

                      🍿 A cross-browser library of CSS animations. As easy to use as an easy thing.

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                                animate.cssby animate-css

                                CSS doticon star image 77938 doticonVersion:v4.1.1doticon License: Others (Non-SPDX)

                                🍿 A cross-browser library of CSS animations. As easy to use as an easy thing.
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                                          GSAPby greensock

                                          JavaScript doticonstar image 16351 doticonVersion:Currentdoticon
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                                          GreenSock's GSAP JavaScript animation library (including Draggable).

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                                                    GSAPby greensock

                                                    JavaScript doticon star image 16351 doticonVersion:Currentdoticonno licences License: No License

                                                    GreenSock's GSAP JavaScript animation library (including Draggable).
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                                                              Anime.js Anime.js is a small, lightweight JavaScript library with a simple and small powerful API. It works with the DOM element, CSS, and JavaScript object. Magic Animations Magic Animations is one impressive animation library available. It has many different animations, many of which are quite unique to this library. As with Animate.css, you can implement Magic by simply importing the CSS file. Zdog Zdog is a 3D JavaScript engine for canvas and SVG. With Zdog, you can design and render simple 3D models on the Web. Zdog is a pseudo-3D engine. Its geometries exist in 3D space but are rendered as flat shapes.

                                                              nuxt-animejsby ivodolenc

                                                              JavaScript doticonstar image 52 doticonVersion:Currentdoticon
                                                              License: Permissive (MIT)

                                                              Anime.js module for Nuxt.js

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                                                                        nuxt-animejsby ivodolenc

                                                                        JavaScript doticon star image 52 doticonVersion:Currentdoticon License: Permissive (MIT)

                                                                        Anime.js module for Nuxt.js
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                                                                                  magicby miniMAC

                                                                                  CSS doticonstar image 6930 doticonVersion:1.1.0doticon
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                                                                                  CSS3 Animations with special effects

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                                                                                            magicby miniMAC

                                                                                            CSS doticon star image 6930 doticonVersion:1.1.0doticon License: Permissive (MIT)

                                                                                            CSS3 Animations with special effects
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                                                                                                      zdogby metafizzy

                                                                                                      JavaScript doticonstar image 9725 doticonVersion:v1.1.1doticon
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                                                                                                      Flat, round, designer-friendly pseudo-3D engine for canvas & SVG

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                                                                                                                zdogby metafizzy

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                                                                                                                          CSShake CSShake is a CSS-based animation framework that concentrates on making UI elements shake. This library includes a variety of CSS classes that you may use to create various animated shake elements for your project. AniJS AniJS lets you create animated styling for your website without any JavaScript or CSS coding! You can specify all your animations with HTML using a simple If-On-Do-To syntax.

                                                                                                                          csshakeby elrumordelaluz

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                                                                                                                          CSS classes to move your DOM!

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                                                                                                                                    csshakeby elrumordelaluz

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                                                                                                                                              anijsby anijs

                                                                                                                                              JavaScript doticonstar image 3858 doticonVersion:0.9.3doticon
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                                                                                                                                              A Library to Raise your Web Design without Coding.

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