glide

Note: This API is deprecated. You can use type: "inertia" with the new animate() function.

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glide can animate transforms using momentum physics. This is great for creating scroll momentum animations.

import { animate, glide } from "motion"

animate(
  element,
  { x: 500 },
  { easing: glide() }
)

Note: glide is a simulation, so provided target keyframes and duration will be overridden.

Velocity

glide will automatically pass velocity from any running animations into the next one, so interrupting an animation will feel natural.

This can be overridden by manually passing velocity to glide. velocity is measured as units per second.

animate(
  "#carousel",
  { x: 100 },
  { easing: glide({ velocity: 1000 }) }
)

If you want to pass a different velocity per value (for instance for animating at the end of a pointer gesture) you can create value-specific options:

animate(
  "#ball",
  { x: 0, y: 0 },
  {
    x: { easing: glide({ velocity: 200 }) },
    y: { easing: spring({ velocity: 500 }) }
  }
)

Boundaries

By setting min and/or max you can set boundaries to the glide animation. If the animated value exceeds these boundaries, a spring animation will start to catch the value and animate it to the exceeded boundary.

glide({ min: -100, max: 100 })

Options

velocity

Default: 0 or the value's current velocity

The velocity (in units per second) at which to start the glide animation.

glide({ velocity: 1000 })

power

Default: 0.8

power influences how much of the initial velocity is factored into the animation, and thus how far the animation will glide.

Higher values will throw the animation further and feel lighter, whereas lower values will feel heavier.

glide({ power: 1 })

decay

Default: 0.325

A time constant (in seconds) used to calculate velocity decay. Higher values lead to longer animations with more gradual deceleration and a lighter feel.

glide({ decay: 0.5 })

restSpeed

Default: 2, or 0.05 for scale

A speed (in absolute units per second) below which the spring animation is considered finished.

spring({ restSpeed: 1 })

restDistance

Default: 0.5 or 0.01for scale

A distance from the animation target, below which the spring animation is considered finished.

spring({ restDistance: 0.1 })

changeTarget

The glide animation automatically calculates a target to animate to. By setting changeTarget, you can take this calculated target and return a new one.

For instance, the function in the following example will snap the target to the next 100:

const roundTo = 100

glide({
  changeTarget: (target) => Math.ceil(target / roundTo) * roundTo
})

min

A minimum boundary for the glide animation. If the animated value exceeds this boundary, a spring animation will take over to snap the value to min.

glide({ min: -100 })

max

A maximum boundary for the glide animation. If the animated value exceeds this boundary, a spring animation will take over to snap the value to max.

glide({ max: 100 })

bounceStiffness

Default: 100

The attraction force of a spring used if the animation exceeds the boundaries defined by min/max. Higher values create faster, sharper movement.

glide({ min: 100, bounceStiffness: 500 })

bounceDamping

Default: 10

The opposing force of a spring. Higher values reduce the bounciness of the spring.

glide({ max: 100, bounceDamping: 30 })

Limitations

There are currently some limitations with the spring easing.

Duration

Springs with damping: 0 can last an infinite amount of time, but the Web Animations API needs a finite duration. So springs currently max out at 10 seconds (which is more than long enough for the vast majority of UI animations).
Increase damping relative to stiffness to decrease the duration of your animation.

Timeline keyframes

spring is supported in timeline but independent transforms must be defined with start and end keyframes: { x: [0, 100] }.

No hardware acceleration

spring only works with independent transforms, which are not yet hardware accelerated in browsers.