tw-animate-css
Tailwind CSS v4.0 compatible animation plugin replacement.
Animation and motion npm MIT
Used in agent projects
851
6.7% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in animation and motion
#3 of 28
by use in those projects
Downloads
39.6M
npm, last 7 days, tw-animate-css
GitHub stars
806
last push Feb 28, 2026
How tw-animate-css is used
tw-animate-css is a dependency in 851 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (6.7%), #3 of 28 in animation and motion. The most used alternative there is Framer Motion. Projects that use it most often also use clsx (96.9%), Tailwind Merge (96.8%), Class Variance Authority (94.9%).
Often used with tw-animate-css
| clsx | 96.9% of tw-animate-css projects · 5.5× more than average |
|---|---|
| Tailwind Merge | 96.8% of tw-animate-css projects · 5.8× more than average |
| Class Variance Authority | 94.9% of tw-animate-css projects · 6.7× more than average |
| Lucide React | 90.7% of tw-animate-css projects · 4.6× more than average |
| Tailwind CSS | 99.6% of tw-animate-css projects · 2.9× more than average |
| Radix UI | 66.6% of tw-animate-css projects · 5.6× more than average |
| Sonner | 55.2% of tw-animate-css projects · 6.8× more than average |
| next-themes | 54.5% of tw-animate-css projects · 6.2× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 9.7% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 9.2% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 10.4% of projects set up for it |
| Gemini CLI | 10.0% of projects set up for it |
| OpenAI Codex | 8.9% of projects set up for it |
| OpenCode | 10.3% of projects set up for it |
| Devin Desktop | 10.2% of projects set up for it |
| Kiro | 11.0% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list tw-animate-css as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install tw-animate-css |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Next.js (589), TypeScript / JavaScript (208), PHP (42), Python (8) |
| Example projects | ding113/claude-code-hub, trypostit/trypost, miantiao-me/bm.md, kovrichard/catalyst, Asymmetric-al/core |
Alternatives to tw-animate-css
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Framer Motion npm Simple and powerful animation library for React components. |
1,703 (13.4%) | 50.1M | 33.9K | MIT |
| Tailwind CSS Animate npm Tailwind CSS plugin adding ready-to-use animation utilities. |
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| GSAP npm Professional animation library for high-performance CSS, SVG, canvas and React animations. |
599 (4.7%) | 5.9M | 29K | Standard 'no charge' license: https://gsap.com/standard-license. |
| Motion npm Animation library for JavaScript and React with simple, powerful motion primitives. |
416 (3.3%) | 24.4M | 33.9K | MIT |
| Lenis npm Smooth scrolling library that enhances page scroll experiences with physics-based animations. |
193 (1.5%) | 1.8M | 16.3K | MIT |
| React Native Reanimated npm High-performance animation library for React Native with worklet support. |
129 (1.0%) | 9.3M | 11K | MIT |
| canvas-confetti npm Performant confetti animation library for creating celebratory effects in browsers. |
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