The roadmap and direction for animate-ui

[kzroo]

I love shadcn components, but the one thing that really was a bummer for me working with shadcn was the lack of fluidity, or animation and transitions, ESPECIALLY on mobile. (And that makes sense, since it was built to be a base ui library for you to customize and extend yourself. But I guess I wish someone built something on top of shadcn which was optimized for mobile as well as the web, so that we could have one distribution to work with)

On the other hand, there's framework7 for mobile UI. But it lacks the freedom, flexibility, and familiarity that comes with shadcn (& tailwindcss).

I was wishing that shadcn was also built for mobile, utilizing smooth, fluid animations, & snappy responsiveness on mobile just like framework7.

Then I found this component distribution. And while it's not exactly what I was looking for (right now), I wonder if the contributors have these plans for the future.
I love what y'all are doing here -- the animations and the fluidity that comes with animate-ui is awesome.
So the question is, is this going to be one shadcn-inspired/based component distribution for BOTH web and mobile, in the future?
What do y'all think of that?

[imskyleen]

Hey!
Thanks a lot for your thoughtful message, it really means a lot 🙏

I’m currently working on the v1 of Animate UI, and your feedback perfectly echoes what I’ve been aiming for.
The goal is exactly to offer a component library like Shadcn, but with fluid, smooth animations that feel great on both web and mobile, without hurting performance.

I’m optimizing each component as much as possible to keep things lightweight and responsive.
Animate UI is built to be flexible, so you can use any underlying primitive library (Radix UI, Base UI, Headless UI and soon React Aria), and I plan to support most of the components covered by Shadcn — and maybe more.

In v1, the library will be split in two parts:
• Primitive components: unstyled, just animated logic (like motion-enhanced Radix components).
• Styled components: inspired by Shadcn’s aesthetics, but powered by these animated primitives.

And down the line, we’ll also ship higher-level blocks, built on top of those components, so you can move even faster.

So yes, the vision is clearly to offer a single, smooth and elegant UI distribution for both web and mobile, with the same developer freedom you get from Tailwind + Shadcn.

Thanks again for the kind words and encouragement, it helps a lot!
If you have any specific needs or ideas, feel free to share them too!

[dinbtechit]

Also works incredibly well inside Chrome extensions! Love it! Compared to other libraries, that are built on top of motion always have some kind of an issue. Especially with Content-Script!

[imskyleen]

The roadmap : https://animate-ui.com/docs/roadmap