This New React Native Animation Library Is Insane
Beto, March 13, 2026 · 19,756 views
Running JavaScript every frame just to fade an icon is overkill, and React Native Ease finally fixes that. The new library from Yanik at App and Flow runs simple animations on Core Animation and Android Animator, so your fades stay smooth even when the JS thread is busy. It is not a Reanimated replacement, and knowing where each one belongs is the whole point.
In the video I refactor real onboarding screens in Platano, deleting shared values and animated style hooks as I go.
What's inside
- What Ease covers: opacity, transforms, fades, and crossfades on state change
- Why OS-level animation keeps motion smooth when JavaScript stalls
- Swapping Reanimated boilerplate for a single with and
- Install with , plus the prebuild step
- The rule I now follow: Ease for state changes, Reanimated for gestures and layout
Resources
CourseReact Native course
Go deeper in the Animations & Gestures section: 62 minutes on Reanimated, gestures, and swipeable UI.
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