Creating modals in React Framer Motion

Framer Motion is a relatively new open source, production-ready animation library for React developers.

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Features include:

  • Spring animations
  • Simple keyframes syntax
  • Gestures (drag/tap/hover)
  • Layout and shared layout animations
  • SVG paths
  • Exit animations
  • Server-side rendering
  • Variants that orchestrate animations across components
  • CSS variables

Installation

Create a new React project

$ npx create-react-app framer-demo

Open your new React app

$ cd react-framer-demo

Install the Framer Motion package

$ npm i framer-motion

Set up

Project structure

framer-demo
├── README.md
├── node_modules
├── package.json
├── .gitignore
├── public
│   ├── favicon.ico
│   ├── index.html
│   ├── logo192.png
│   ├── logo512.png
│   ├── manifest.json
│   └── robots.txt
└── src
    ├── hooks
    │   └── useModal.jsx
    ├── components
    │   ├── Modal
    │   │   └── index.jsx
    │   ├── Backdrop
    │   │   └── index.jsx
    │   ├── Notification
    │   │   └── index.jsx
    │   └── Input
    │       └── index.jsx
    ├── App.jsx
    ├── stateLogger.js
    ├── arr-utils.js
    ├── index.css
    └── index.js