Incorporating an Animation Library: Suggestions and Feedback

Relume Do you plan on incorporating an animation library in the near future? This would be a great addition to the subscription service. I've started to see a few sites that offer this, such as the following: https://www.microinteractions.co/ https://www.gfluo.com/

28 comments

Dan
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No plans yet Jason S., but great suggestion!
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Andy B.
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Hey Jason, these look great. Do you know other sites that offer more complex animations?
Jason S.
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These are the only ones I know of, but even these appeared in the last few weeks or months, so I'm sure we'll start to see a few more options on the horizon.
Jason S.
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I've seen complex animations on cloneable sites found on Webflow. It's a great place to gather ideas until a more advanced animation library becomes available.
Sara M.
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Why would you use gfluo vs straight gsap?
Jason S.
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From what I can tell, gfluo has a webflow app that allows you to easily add gsap animations to your site without actually writing any custom code
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Aurelien S.
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Jason S. I came across this one: https://webflow.com/made-in-webflow/website/goo-library
Jason S.
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Aurelien S. This is just what I was looking for. Thanks for sharing this. Really impressed with the collection of animations on offer here for free 🙌
Sara M.
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I just saw this post now. It seems cool, but Aurelien S. how can you be confident that these interactions will work forever?
Sara M.
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A paid gfluo account seems much safer to me, no?
Aurelien S.
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Hey Sara M. what is your concern? At the end of the day it's all just code that sits on a server somewhere. Yes if the servers all shutdown and the code is inaccessible then your animations might stop working ... and likely the rest of the world. I think Goo is built on GSAP so I wouldn't be too concerned. I believe gfluo is just an easier user experience. Hence the cost.
Sara M.
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Well if gfluo is an easier experience I'd probably go with that as I'm not so into code:)
Sara M.
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I'm just concerned that there's no guarantee that the server will be up forever
Sara M.
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If I'm using it on clients sites, I don't want it to break one day
Sara M.
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I always say that one of the reasons to use Webflow over Wordpress is that it's much less likely for things to break because it's all native
Aurelien S.
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You could download the code and load it into your own code depository than it's up to you. Even gfluo is loading external code in.
Sara M.
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I don't know how to do that 🙂 I don't get so technical like that
Sara M.
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GFluo is paid and says I get lifetime access. For some reason that makes me feel better
Sara M.
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All of GSAP is external code, no?
Aurelien S.
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Yes. As I understand when you load a site it loads in all the code/scripts that is referenced within it. With gsap you have lifetime access as well. There is no right or wrong here.
Sara M.
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I hear. Thank you for your help.
Sara M.
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Aurelien S. are you good with custom code?
Aurelien S.
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No, but maybe good enough for what you need? What are you trying to do?
Sara M.
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I'm trying to have 2 different GSAP animations on a website. Being chatting with claude but things keep going wrong, but it might be too complex if you don't know code well
Aurelien S.
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Try this: https://youtu.be/MYN_nTNHv1s?si=3u6Oyg1ChXuvo3a1 & this: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-LuhKTeMx5-flowscripts
Sara M.
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cool! Thank you! I feel like we need a list of all these good webflow resources that make such a difference
Sara M.
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I think Claude actually finally pulled through! If it's working do I need to be worried about anything, or should I have someone who knows code review it?
Aurelien S.
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Just DM'd you a bigger resource but this might be what you are looking for: https://webflowthings.webflow.io/