React Transition Group
React component library for managing animations and transitions declaratively.
Animation and motion npm BSD-3-Clause
Used in agent projects
21
0.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in animation and motion
#26 of 28
by use in those projects
Downloads
49.9M
npm, last 7 days, react-transition-group
GitHub stars
10.2K
last push Mar 5, 2026
How React Transition Group is used
React Transition Group is a dependency in 21 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.2%), #26 of 28 in animation and motion. The most used alternative there is Framer Motion. Projects that use it most often also use React Router (47.6%), Testing Library (42.9%), React (85.7%).
Often used with React Transition Group
| React Router | 47.6% of React Transition Group projects · 6.2× more than average |
|---|---|
| Testing Library | 42.9% of React Transition Group projects · 5.9× more than average |
| React | 85.7% of React Transition Group projects · 2.0× more than average |
| Web Vitals | 38.1% of React Transition Group projects · 21.8× more than average |
| Three.js | 52.4% of React Transition Group projects · 2.9× more than average |
| Axios | 38.1% of React Transition Group projects · 3.8× more than average |
| Sass | 33.3% of React Transition Group projects · 18.2× more than average |
| react-scripts | 28.6% of React Transition Group projects · 15.7× more than average |
Install
| Package | npm install react-transition-group |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (14), Next.js (5), Python (1), PHP (1) |
| Example projects | JesusFilm/core, MayankMittal1/SilkRoad, PhillipsAuctionHouse/seldon, evanhsu/firecrew |
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