# Motion

A modern animation library for React and JavaScript

Repository: https://github.com/motiondivision/motion
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/motion
Homepage: https://motion.dev
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: animation, animation-js, motion, react, reactanimations, spring
Last push: 2026-08-26T11:26:28+00:00
Link (homepage): https://motion.dev
Link (site_page): https://motion.dev/docs
Link (site_page): https://motion.dev/docs/react
Link (site_page): https://motion.dev/docs/quick-start
Link (site_page): https://motion.dev/docs/vue

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 77/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2847, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 33372, forks 1340 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:58.280448+00:00)

## What it is
Motion (formerly Framer Motion) is a production-grade open source animation library for JavaScript, React, and Vue, built on a hybrid engine combining the Web Animations API with a JavaScript fallback. It provides declarative APIs for springs, gestures, layout transitions, scroll-linked effects, and timelines with a tiny, tree-shakable footprint.

## Use cases
- animate ui components in react
- add scroll-triggered and parallax animations to a website
- create spring physics micro-interactions
- animate layout changes and shared element transitions
- build drag and gesture-driven interactions
- animate svg and webgl elements with javascript
- add exit animations when elements leave the dom

## When to choose
- you need declarative, state-driven animations in React or Vue
- you want hardware-accelerated scroll-linked and gesture animations with a simple API
- you need layout/shared-element transitions without manual FLIP code
- bundle size and performance matter more than heavier alternatives like GSAP

## When to avoid
- you only need simple self-contained hover or color transitions, where plain CSS is lighter
- your project doesn't use React, Vue, or vanilla JavaScript on the web
- you need server-side or non-browser animation

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: animation, ui-components, frontend-framework
- domain: frontend, web-development, graphics
- platform: browser
- tags: framer-motion, react, vue, typescript, spring-physics, scroll-animations, gestures, layout-animations, web-animations-api, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- motiondivision/motion (main) score 77
- motiondivision/motion-vue (sdk) score 88

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:58.280448+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:28:19.424660+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/motiondivision/motion (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:58.280448+00:00, sha bba18ae724d2)
  - homepage: https://motion.dev (fetched 2026-08-29T07:49:18.405737+00:00, sha 16cfa580dd2d)
  - site_page: https://motion.dev/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T07:49:18.414839+00:00, sha bab0016213fd)
  - site_page: https://motion.dev/docs/react (fetched 2026-08-29T07:49:18.416702+00:00, sha 47bbf221ff0a)
  - site_page: https://motion.dev/docs/quick-start (fetched 2026-08-29T07:49:18.418615+00:00, sha d0a8429dcb4a)
  - site_page: https://motion.dev/docs/vue (fetched 2026-08-29T07:49:18.420460+00:00, sha a3700ca950c2)
  - site_page: https://motion.dev/docs/react-animation (fetched 2026-08-29T07:49:18.422259+00:00, sha e2f12bc15c0c)
  - site_page: https://motion.dev/docs/react-scroll-animations (fetched 2026-08-29T07:49:18.424414+00:00, sha 76f0c3ef8d1d)
  - site_page: https://motion.dev/docs/react-gestures (fetched 2026-08-29T07:49:18.426324+00:00, sha 23b74b0f67c4)
  - site_page: https://motion.dev/docs/react-layout-animations (fetched 2026-08-29T07:49:18.428292+00:00, sha 03a29fb4e939)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.