React Spring Animations

Build physics-based animations in React with React Spring. Creates spring-driven transitions, gesture-linked motion, trails, and imperative animation controllers that respond naturally to state changes.

This skill helps you animate React interfaces with React Spring's physics engine. It builds useSpring and useTransition hooks, chains trails and staggered sequences, wires drag/scroll gestures with @use-gesture, animates lists on enter/leave, and tunes tension, friction, and mass for natural motion instead of scripted timelines.

When to use

Use when adding spring-physics motion to React apps — mounting transitions, gesture-driven interactions, animated lists, parallax, or any effect that should feel elastic and responsive rather than linear.

Examples

Animated list transitions

Enter/leave animation for a dynamic list

Use React Spring useTransition to animate items fading and sliding in and out as they are added and removed from a todo list

Drag-to-dismiss card

Gesture-linked spring motion

Build a drag-to-dismiss card with React Spring and @use-gesture that follows the pointer and springs back or flies off based on velocity