# joshwcomeau/react-flip-move

Effortless animation between DOM changes (eg. list reordering) using the FLIP technique.

Repository: https://github.com/joshwcomeau/react-flip-move
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/react-flip-move
Homepage: http://joshwcomeau.github.io/react-flip-move/examples
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: reactjs, react-flip-move, animation, react, hardware-acceleration, flip, transition-animation
Last push: 2022-12-06T19:59:41+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3868, "days_push": 1366, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4135, forks 250 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:36.189653+00:00)

## What it is
A React component library that animates DOM changes such as list reordering using the FLIP technique with hardware-accelerated CSS transforms. It wraps children in a FlipMove component to produce smooth 60+ FPS transitions when items are added, removed, or shuffled.

## Use cases
- animate list reordering in react
- smooth transitions when shuffling a grid of items
- animate items entering and leaving a list
- magic move animations between dom changes
- animate sortable list drag reordering
- transition animations for react components

## When to choose
- you need effortless FLIP animations for list or grid reordering in a React app
- you want hardware-accelerated 60fps transitions without writing manual CSS transform logic
- you need a simple drop-in React component with a UMD build option

## When to avoid
- you need a library under active development - it is looking for maintainers
- you need advanced FLIP features like shared element transitions - consider react-flip-toolkit instead
- you are not using React

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: animation, ui-components, frontend-framework
- domain: frontend, web-development, web-design
- platform: browser, cross-platform
- tags: react, flip-technique, list-animation, css-transforms, hardware-accelerated, react-component, nodejs

## Member repositories
- joshwcomeau/react-flip-move (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:36.189653+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 2026-08-29T18:23:01.617194+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/joshwcomeau/react-flip-move (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:36.189653+00:00, sha d4935209eb7f)
  - homepage: http://joshwcomeau.github.io/react-flip-move/examples (fetched 2026-08-29T09:14:20.748992+00:00, sha 6a734c916105)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/react-flip-move (fetched 2026-08-29T09:14:20.751373+00:00, sha b95f12fa6873)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.