Animation for Jotai Atoms

This provides a simple way to bind Jotai atoms to real-time animations.

Please note that the current state of this package is a proof-of-concept; while it works quite well, there is no live demo and the API may change significantly.

Included in this package:

• Utilities for animation
  • getAnimationSignal - given a get from a store, will subscribe to animation updates when used within Jotai's atom() and return the current performance timer value
  • getInstantaneousAnimationSignal - returns the current performance timer value
  • manuallyUpdateAnimationFrame - function to manually trigger animationSignal updates when not subscribed (this prety well defeats the purpose of animations...)
  • tweenedAtom - tweens an Atom<number> via an EasingFunction (not provided, but see tween.js's Easing export for examples) using the animationSignal
  • initializeForAnimations - initializes a store for animations. Happens automatically if a tweenedAtom or an animation using getAnimationSignal is subscribed to.

Usage example:

import { atom } from 'jotai';
import {
	tweenedAtom,
	getAnimationSignal,
} from '@principlestudios/jotai-animation-atom';

const size = atom(15);
const tweenedSize = tweenedAtom(size, Easing.Quadratic.Out);
const customAtom = atom(
	(get) => Math.round(getAnimationSignal(get) / 1000) % 2
);

Troubleshooting

If your animations are not happening and you are not using subscriptions, make sure you call initializeForAnimations(store) with the store you are using to get the animation values.