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60 FPS: Performant web animations for optimal UX

What's this blog post about?

The text discusses the importance of smooth web animations for a natural-feeling application and how to achieve this. It explains that performance is crucial for user experience, with 60 frames per second being the generally accepted target for achieving a "natural" feel. Developers are advised to limit the amount of necessary work in each frame to ensure smooth interactions. The text also covers various techniques such as using transformations and opacity changes, promoting elements to their own compositor layers, and leveraging requestAnimationFrame for performance-intensive events like resize or scroll. It emphasizes testing and iterating to fine-tune animation performance and reduce the amount of work needed in each frame.

Company
Algolia

Date published
May 24, 2022

Author(s)
Emily Hayman

Word count
2213

Language
English

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