Solid MotionOne

A tiny, performant animation library for SolidJS. Powered by Motion One.

Introduction

Motion One for Solid is a 5.8kb animation library for SolidJS. It takes advantage of Solid's excellent performance and simple declarative syntax. This package supplies springs, independent transforms, and hardware accelerated animations.

Installation

Motion One for Solid can be installed via npm:

npm install solid-motionone
# or
pnpm add solid-motionone
# or
yarn add solid-motionone

Create an animation

Import the Motion component and use it anywhere in your Solid components:

import {Motion} from "solid-motionone"

function MyComponent() {
  return <Motion>Hello world</Motion>
}

The Motion component can be used to create an animatable HTML or SVG element. By default, it will render a div element:

import {Motion} from "solid-motionone"

function App() {
  return (
    <Motion.div
      animate={{opacity: [0, 1]}}
      transition={{duration: 1, easing: "ease-in-out"}}
    />
  )
}

But any HTML or SVG element can be rendered, by defining it like this: <Motion.button>

Or like this: <Motion tag="button">

Transition options

We can change the type of animation used by passing a transition prop.

<Motion
  animate={{rotate: 90, backgroundColor: "yellow"}}
  transition={{duration: 1, easing: "ease-in-out"}}
/>

By default transition options are applied to all values, but we can also override on a per-value basis:

<Motion
  animate={{rotate: 90, backgroundColor: "yellow"}}
  transition={{
    duration: 1,
    rotate: {duration: 2},
  }}
/>

Taking advantage of Solid's reactivity is just as easy. Simply provide any of the Motion properties as accessors to have them change reactively:

const [bg, setBg] = createSignal("red")

return (
  <Motion.button
    onClick={() => setBg("blue")}
    animate={{backgroundColor: bg()}}
    transition={{duration: 3}}
  >
    Click Me
  </Motion.button>
)

The result is a button that begins red and upon being pressed transitions to blue. animate doesn't accept an accessor function. For reactive properties simply place signals in the object similar to using style prop.

Keyframes

Values can also be set as arrays, to define a series of keyframes.

<Motion animate={{x: [0, 100, 50]}} />

By default, keyframes are spaced evenly throughout duration, but this can be adjusted by providing progress values to offset:

<Motion animate={{x: [0, 100, 50]}} transition={{x: {offset: [0, 0.25, 1]}}} />

Enter animations

Elements will automatically animate to the values defined in animate when they're created.

This can be disabled by setting the initial prop to false. The styles defined in animate will be applied immediately when the element is first created.

<Motion initial={false} animate={{x: 100}} />

Exit animations

When an element is removed with <Show> it can be animated out with the Presence component and the exit prop:

import {createSignal, Show} from "solid-js"
import {Motion, Presence} from "solid-motionone"

function App() {
  const [isShown, setShow] = createSignal(true)

  return (
    <div>
      <Presence exitBeforeEnter>
        <Show when={isShown()}>
          <Motion
            initial={{opacity: 0, scale: 0.6}}
            animate={{opacity: 1, scale: 1}}
            exit={{opacity: 0, scale: 0.6}}
            transition={{duration: 0.3}}
          />
        </Show>
      </Presence>
      <button onClick={() => setShow(p => !p)}>Toggle</button>
    </div>
  )
}

exit can be provided a transition of its own, that override the component's transition:

<Presence>
  <Show when={isShown()}>
    <Motion
      animate={{opacity: 1}}
      exit={{opacity: 0, transition: {duration: 0.8}}}
    />
  </Show>
</Presence>