26 React GSAP Examples
This collection of “React GSAP Examples” contains practical demos that will help you elevate your web projects with powerful animations. You’ll see how GSAP works seamlessly with React’s component lifecycle, creating smooth transitions and dynamic effects. The examples cover everything from simple element animations to managing complex sequences with gsap.timeline() and interactive animations that react to user actions. These aren’t just demos - they’re ready-made templates for building impressive UX.
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The Konami Code Easter Egg
Entering the Konami Code (↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A) triggers a party mode: the stars turn different colors, move chaotically to the sound of sparkle.mp3, and then return to their original state.
IKEA Room Gallery Redesign
A sophisticated React/Redux e-commerce SPA featuring seamless page transitions powered by GSAP. It utilizes clip-path animations for cinematic reveals and the Draggable plugin for interactive product grids, creating a fluid, app-like shopping experience.
Animated Slider with Morphing Effects
This cinematic slider interface leverages GSAP timelines and sophisticated clip-path polygon transformations to orchestrate fluid transitions between full-screen slides and an overlay navigation system.
Useless Checkbox with React and GSAP
A demonstration of the powerful React and GSAP integration: logic based on random limits determines the animation path and the dynamic alteration of SVG elements upon checkbox interaction.
Animated Apple Tear Strip with React and GSAP
This interactive animation, built with React and GSAP, lets the user “tear” a stylized seal. The complex effect is achieved by tracking cursor movement with Draggable.create() and then smoothly changing properties like clip-path and box-shadow to simulate the tear.
Animated Card Transitions with React and GSAP FLIP
An interactive React gallery where clicking a card triggers an impressive fly-out effect. This is accomplished with GSAP Flip, which automatically calculates the start and end states of the element to ensure a flawless and smooth transition.
Checkbox Accent Color Pixel Art
This demo shows how to transform raster images into interactive UI elements. The generation and state management logic is handled by React, while the complex, coordinated animations are executed with GSAP to create a unique visual effect.
Circle Swap Photo Gallery with React and GSAP
An interactive gallery built with React and GSAP, this demo shows how to use the MotionPathPlugin for dynamic element transitions. When a circle icon is clicked, the image follows a Bézier curve, scales up, and fills the entire screen.
Color Search Engine with React and GSAP
This demo is a color search engine based on the Unsplash API, where each color click triggers a GSAP animation for a smooth reveal. The state of requests and display is managed using React with the useReducer hook for enhanced predictability.
GSAP Parallax Effect in ReactJS
This demo uses a React and GSAP ScrollTrigger combination to create a parallax effect with smooth scrolling. The key feature is the animation’s synchronization with scroll movement, achieved through Lenis integration.
Interactive React Canvas Hero Image with GSAP and jQuery Integration
The demo showcases an advanced cursor-reactive animation built with React and GSAP. It utilizes HTML5 Canvas to display an an image broken into multiple fragments that spread out and scale as the cursor approaches, creating a unique visual effect.
Progress Button Microinteractions with ReactJS
This React progress bar button leverages GSAP to create a seamless, multi-step animation, from shape morphing to a full progress fill and a final checkmark reveal.
Quiz App with React and GSAP
This interactive quiz shows how to synchronize React Hooks (useState, useEffect) to manage app logic and GSAP to create micro-animations. The result is a clean, responsive interface with pleasing visual effects.
React Inertia Section Scroller
This example implements responsive inertia scrolling that smoothly flips through sections. GSAP and React create a spectacular transition between full-screen blocks, while interactivity is provided by handling mouse wheel and touch events.
React Number Range Slider with GSAP
This demo is an animated counter built with React and GSAP that synchronizes a range slider with a smooth, scrolling digit display. This approach makes value manipulation both intuitive and visually appealing.
React Square Ripple Image Flipper on Hover
This demo showcases how to use React and the Canvas API to create a grid of elements, then utilize GSAP to animate a transition between two images. The ripple effect is achieved by calculating animation delay based on each tile’s distance from the cursor.
Responsive CSS Powered Parallax with React and GSAP
An interactive UI effect where separate scene elements move at different speeds in response to cursor motion, creating an illusion of depth. The implementation is based on React and GSAP, using pointermove for cursor tracking.
Simple Horizontal Scroll with GSAP in ReactJS
This demo shows how to use GSAP ScrollTrigger to create full-screen horizontal scrolling by pinning the container (pin: true) and synchronizing xPercent with the vertical scroll.
Stack Prototype with React and GSAP
The demo showcases a “card stack” UI effect where items can be navigated with buttons or by dragging with the mouse. It’s powered by React for state management and GSAP Draggable for the drag-and-drop logic and animation.
Subscribe Call to Action
This demo is an animated subscription form showcasing element transformation using GSAP. The key feature is the smooth animation that turns a rectangular form into a circle, followed by the appearance of a checkmark, creating a vivid and impressive action completion.
VR Loader with React, CSS, and GSAP
This demo uses a combined approach: React to build a component-based 3D scene and GSAP for complex animation. The main highlight is the use of gsap.utils.selector to manage nested elements and well-thought-out timeline logic to create infinite motion.
Wacky Keyboard with React and GSAP
The demo showcases the powerful combination of React and GSAP, creating a visually rich experience. A letter element is animated to fly out and fall with each keypress, while the key itself animates using a custom GSAP CustomWiggle for a “bouncing” effect.
Animated Like Button with Counter
An animated like button with a counter, where GSAP manages the dynamics and React handles the logic and UI rendering.
Fancy Exploding Button with GSAP
See how React and GSAP combine to create an impressive “exploding” button effect, driven by component state and dynamic CSS transformations.
React Magnetic Button with Staggering Text
Learn how to create a “magnetic” button that attracts the cursor using GSAP and React Hooks for mouse tracking and smooth animations. A great example of UI/UX interaction.
Clean Toggle Switch in React and GSAP
A custom switch component using native SVG for rendering and CSS filters for glow effects, while React manages the state and GSAP handles the complex, non-linear animation with varied ease parameters.
