Comparing
Production-ready animations and gestures for React — declarative, physics-based, with layout animations and exit transitions.
Composable charting components for React — build line, bar, pie, and area charts from SVG with a declarative JSX API.
| Metric | framer-motion | recharts |
|---|---|---|
| Ecosystem | npm | npm |
| Difficulty | Intermediate | Beginner ✓ |
| Weekly downloads | 7.0M↑ | 3.2M |
| Latest version | v12.6.2 | v2.15.0 |
| Recipes | 2↑ | 1 |
framer-motion only
Shared
recharts only
React apps needing UI animations: page transitions, list reordering, drag-and-drop, hover effects, scroll-triggered reveals, and exit animations.
Dashboards, analytics pages, standard business charts in React apps, any time you want good-looking charts without a steep learning curve.
Non-React projects, performance-critical animations running at 120fps with many particles (use CSS or WebGL), or very simple opacity/transform transitions where CSS is sufficient.
Custom/unusual visualizations (use d3), non-React projects (use Chart.js), performance-critical charts with 100k+ data points (Canvas-based charts are faster).
framer-motion
recharts