Chapter 16: React drag animation guide

Core Idea

Learn to build powerful, physics-based drag interactions in your React apps.

Key Concepts

• The drag prop: The simplest way to make a component draggable is to add the drag prop to a motion component.
• Axis locking: To lock dragging to a single axis
• Visual feedback with whileDrag: You can animate to an animation state while an element is being dragged using the whileDrag prop.
• Momentum: By default
• Drag, swipe, scroll.: The Motion+ Carousel component creates pixel-perfect
• Constraints: You can constrain the movement of a draggable element using the dragConstraints prop.
• Pixel constraints: The simplest way to apply constraints is by passing an object of top
• Ref-based constraints: For more dynamic constraints
• Elastic constraints: By default

Code Examples

<motion.div drag />

• What it demonstrates: Core usage pattern for React drag animation guide.

Key Takeaways

1. Momentum.
2. Axis control.
3. Elastic constraints.
4. Direction locking.
5. Optional imperative start/stop controls.

Connects To

• React carousel component: related Motion doc page.
• Reorder: related Motion doc page.
• MotionConfig: related Motion doc page.
• SVG Animation in React: related Motion doc page.
• Layout Animation: related Motion doc page.