React.js: Non-CSS animations

Question

React documentation doesn’t have anything about handling animations that are not CSS transitions, such as animation of scroll position and SVG attributes.

As for CSS tra

Answer 1

Been having the same exact problems myself, until recently I've found out about Rekapi. This library provides state-based animations tools. Check out the tutorial https://github.com/jeremyckahn/rekapi/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md

The trick is, the context doesn't have to be a canvas or a DOM element, it can be a plain object, i.e. a component instance or a mixin, so this opens the possibility either to perform some logic in your actor's render method and then setState on your component(context), or simply write a "one trick actor" that always forwards its state to the component each frame.