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Framer motion variants

Skill C-Jeril/framer-motion-skills/skills/framer-motion-variants

Official Framer Motion skill for animation variants — state machines, orchestrated animations, stagger, repeat, sequencing. Use when building orchestrated animations, animation state machines, staggered entrances, or when asking about Framer Motion variants, transition variants, or choreographed animations.From its SKILL.md

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Framer Motion Variants

When to Use This Skill

Apply when building multi-step animations, coordinated animations across multiple elements, or when using variants for state-based animation control. Variants are Framer Motion's way of defining reusable animation states that can be choreographed.

Related skills: For core animation props use framer-motion-core; for React integration use framer-motion-react; for scroll-driven variants use framer-motion-scroll.

Defining Variants

Variants are objects that define animation states:

const container = {
  hidden: { opacity: 0 },
  visible: {
    opacity: 1,
    transition: {
      staggerChildren: 0.1
    }
  }
};

const item = {
  hidden: { opacity: 0, y: 20 },
  visible: { opacity: 1, y: 0 }
};

function Component() {
  return (
    <motion.div
      variants={container}
      initial="hidden"
      animate="visible"
    >
      {[1, 2, 3].map(i => (
        <motion.div key={i} variants={item} />
      ))}
    </motion.div>
  );
}

Variant Types

Static Variants

const variants = {
  initial: { opacity: 0 },
  animate: { opacity: 1 },
  exit: { opacity: 0 }
};

Dynamic Variants

const variants = {
  animate: (custom) => ({
    x: custom * 100,
    opacity: 1
  })
};

Orchestration

staggerChildren

Stagger children animations:

const container = {
  hidden: { opacity: 0 },
  visible: {
    opacity: 1,
    transition: {
      staggerChildren: 0.1,
      delayChildren: 0.2
    }
  }
};

staggerDirection

transition: {
  staggerChildren: 0.1,
  staggerDirection: -1  // 1 = forward, -1 = backward
}

Repeating Animations

const variants = {
  animate: {
    scale: [1, 1.5, 1],
    transition: {
      duration: 2,
      repeat: Infinity,
      repeatType: "loop"  // "loop" | "reverse" | "mirror"
    }
  }
};

repeatType Options

Type	Behavior
`"loop"`	Restart from beginning
`"reverse"`	Play forward then backward
`"mirror"`	Swap states on each repeat

Keyframes

Animate through multiple values:

<motion.div
  animate={{
    x: [0, 100, -50, 0],
    backgroundColor: ["#ff0000", "#00ff00", "#0000ff"]
  }}
  transition={{
    duration: 2,
    times: [0, 0.3, 0.6, 1]
  }}
/>

State Machine with custom

const states = {
  idle: { scale: 1 },
  hovered: { scale: 1.1 },
  pressed: { scale: 0.95 }
};

function Component({ state }) {
  return (
    <motion.div
      variants={states}
      animate={state}
      custom={state}
    />
  );
}

Parent-Child Coordination

const container = {
  hidden: { opacity: 0 },
  visible: {
    opacity: 1,
    transition: {
      staggerChildren: 0.1,
      when: "beforeChildren"
    }
  }
};

const child = {
  hidden: { x: -20, opacity: 0 },
  visible: {
    x: 0,
    opacity: 1,
    transition: { duration: 0.3 }
  }
};

Best practices

✅ Use variants for reusable, coordinated animations.
✅ Use staggerChildren for list animations.
✅ Use custom prop to pass dynamic values.
✅ Define exit variants for AnimatePresence.
✅ Use when option for parent-child coordination.

Do Not

❌ Mix motion values and variants incorrectly.
❌ Forget that variant transitions can be overridden.
❌ Use too many variant states (keep to 3-5).
❌ Forget to pass custom when needed.

Learn More

https://www.framer.com/motion/animation/ https://www.framer.com/motion/variants/

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