animation-patterns

A set of example animations for React interfaces using Framer Motion, a library for moving and changing web elements, with Tailwind CSS classes for styling.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for fading and sliding content in, button hover and tap feedback, staggered lists, page changes, and modal animations.
Why use it?
It gives you ready patterns for common effects instead of designing each animation from scratch.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/farzannajipour/cursor-react-rules/animation-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Farzannajipour/cursor-react-rules

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 1,013 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.01013
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00507
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00203
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00101

Measured yesterday against content hash 644e58e3cb31, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

animation-patterns scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.cursor/rules/animation-patterns.mdc · 191 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 191 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Animation Patterns

Framer Motion Patterns

Basic Animation

import { motion } from 'framer-motion';

<motion.div
  initial={{ opacity: 0, y: 20 }}
  animate={{ opacity: 1, y: 0 }}
  transition={{ duration: 0.3 }}
>
  Content
</motion.div>

Hover and Tap

<motion.button
  whileHover={{ scale: 1.05 }}
  whileTap={{ scale: 0.95 }}
  className="px-4 py-2 bg-blue-600 text-white rounded"
>
  Click me
</motion.button>

Stagger Children

const container = {
  hidden: { opacity: 0 },
  show: {
    opacity: 1,
    transition: {
      staggerChildren: 0.1,
    },
  },
};

const item = {
  hidden: { opacity: 0, y: 20 },
  show: { opacity: 1, y: 0 },
};

<motion.div variants={container} initial="hidden" animate="show">
  {items.map((item) => (
    <motion.div key={item.id} variants={item}>
      {item.name}
    </motion.div>
  ))}
</motion.div>

Page Transitions

<motion.div
  key={router.pathname}
  initial={{ opacity: 0, x: -20 }}
  animate={{ opacity: 1, x: 0 }}
  exit={{ opacity: 0, x: 20 }}
  transition={{ duration: 0.2 }}
>
  {children}
</motion.div>

Modal Animation

<motion.div
  initial={{ opacity: 0, scale: 0.95 }}
  animate={{ opacity: 1, scale: 1 }}
  exit={{ opacity: 0, scale: 0.95 }}
  transition={{ duration: 0.2 }}
  className="bg-white rounded-lg p-6"
>
  Modal content
</motion.div>

Tailwind CSS Animations

Transitions

<button className="transition-colors duration-200 hover:bg-blue-700">
  Hover me
</button>

<div className="transition-all duration-300 ease-in-out hover:scale-105">
  Transform on hover
</div>

Built-in Animations

// Spin
<div className="animate-spin">Loading...</div>

// Ping
<span className="animate-ping">Notification</span>

// Pulse
<div className="animate-pulse">Loading skeleton</div>

// Bounce
<div className="animate-bounce">Arrow down</div>

Custom Animations

// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
  theme: {
    extend: {
      animation: {
        'fade-in': 'fadeIn 0.5s ease-in',
        'slide-up': 'slideUp 0.3s ease-out',
      },
      keyframes: {
        fadeIn: {
          '0%': { opacity: '0' },
          '100%': { opacity: '1' },
        },
        slideUp: {
          '0%': { transform: 'translateY(20px)', opacity: '0' },
          '100%': { transform: 'translateY(0)', opacity: '1' },
        },
      },
    },
  },
};

Read the full file on GitHub · 191 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 191 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 644e58e3cb31

Subscribe to this mod's changes

animation-patterns is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Farzannajipour/cursor-react-rules (2 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,013 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.