Can React Native Animations Be Simpler and Faster? | React Universe On Air
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The episode discusses simplifying React Native animations with Janic Duplessis, focusing on the React Native Ease library and its advantages over more complex tools.
Some animations do not need a full animation engine. Sometimes you just want a view to fade in, translate, or move slowly without burning frame budget every time the UI thread gets busy. Łukasz Chludziński talks with Janic Duplessis from App & Flow about React Native Ease, a small animation library built around platform-native primitives. They cover early React Native days, why Reanimated is still the right tool for complex interactions, and where a simpler React-like API can make sense. Key takeaways: - Why React Native Ease was created and what problem it solves - How Core Animation can run animations outside the UI thread on iOS - Why simple transitions do not always need Reanimated’s full flexibility - Where Reanimated remains the right tool, especially for gestures and complex interactions - How animation performance relates to frame budget, not just visible frame drops - Why React Native’s maturity shifts more innovation into third-party libraries - How focused open-source tools can push the whole ecosystem forward Guest introduction: Janic Duplessis is a developer at App & Flow and the creator of React Native Ease. He has been working with React Native since the early…
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