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Posted by adrianvoica 4/3/2025

AnimeJs v4 Is Here(animejs.com)
973 points | 155 commentspage 3
Mr_Eri_Atlov 4/4/2025|
This looks amazing, is there a plugin to convert CAD parts for use like this? Exploding part views in this style would look so fantastic.
FlorianRappl 4/3/2025||
This is why I love HN. Not sure if I would have gotten the memo... Impressive tech, useful lib, super awesome landing page. Just blown away!
drschwabe 4/3/2025||
Bravo, been looking forward to this but AnimeJs v3 has just been so solid for so long honestly you did amazing on v3 that v4 is just icing on top; excited to try this out on my next project.

async/await + animation (ie- with AnimeJS) is highly underrated.

And mad props for skipping the now dying trend of refactoring entire codebase to TypeScript :)

maelito 4/3/2025||
How does it compare to Motion ?
dkersten 4/3/2025|
That's what I came here to ask too. This looks wonderful, but I'm already using Motion quite a bit. I'm also using React and am unsure how well Anime.js pairs with that while Motion has a first party react library.

In any case, like everyone else here, I'm very impressed with OP's site and documentation. Very slick!

xico 4/3/2025||
The first page in the documentation, Getting Started, gives a React sample: https://animejs.com/documentation/getting-started/using-with...
dkersten 4/3/2025||
Ah, I looked at the examples but I guess I missed this. Thanks!

So it basically works outside of react land — you can animate your component but it’s applied after react renders it. It’s nice to see an example and that it works, but I suppose it does mean there are certain things it’s unable to do, such as animating on component removal (Motion does this by adding a wrapper component that detects when its children are removed, I suppose it’s not something you can achieve without special react specific support)

kamranjon 4/4/2025||
I was absolutely floored by the website, what a way to knock it out of the park.

I have never heard of this library before, but it’s going to stick in my head the next time I’m looking for a JS animation lib.

Definitely kinda highlights the importance of first impressions.

wilfredk 4/3/2025||
The animations in the docs page is crazy informative, interactive and fluid.
bobajeff 4/4/2025||
This runs surprisingly very smoothly even on my phone's browser.

This looks to be rendered in real time. I feel this kind of 3d animation would be difficult for me to achieve in blender on my PC.

skeptrune 4/4/2025||
I feel like web tech is getting a lot more mature and reliable. Just my personal vibe-read, but JS libs on the whole seem to be getting to be consistently hitting higher quality bars.
mrbluecoat 4/4/2025|
I stared at the homepage on my smartphone for a while and thought "That's really quite good." Then I started scrolling...

<mind>me</blown>

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