Wes and Scott talk with Matt Perry, the creator of Motion (formerly Framer Motion). Matt discusses building intuitive tools, transitioning Motion to open source, and the future of web animation.

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
• 01:15 The Framer Motion story
  • Motion
• 05:16 What’s the status of Framer Motion today?
• 09:08 What tech is Motion built on?
• 13:40 Is Motion entirely WAAPI?
• 16:06 Why hasn’t the Web Animation API gained more traction?
• 17:46 Does Matt design his demos?
• 19:25 Performance and testing
• 25:34 Brought to you by Sentry.io
• 28:10 Have other animation libraries influenced Motion?
  • Svelte
  • GSAP
  • Anime.js
• 31:49 Micro-Optimizations in JS
• 36:02 How do you test frame rates?
• 38:03 Graphics programming and shaders
  • Maxime Heckel
  • Maxime’s blog
• 39:58 What is the future of Motion?
• 41:42 What’s the difference between layout animations and the Vue Transition API?
• 46:35 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs

• Matt:
  • Grime music
  • P Money
  • Ghetts

• Matt:
  • Motion.dev
  • Sponsor Motion

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