Premium micro-interactions in React 19 (without the jank) (opens in new tab)

There's a specific kind of bad animation I notice immediately: the count-up stat that stutters as it ticks, the progress bar that lags a frame behind your scroll, the "active" tab underline that snaps instead of glides. None of it is broken, exactly. It just feels cheap. And nine times out of ten, the cause is the same — the animation is being driven through React state, so every frame triggers a re-render, and the main thread can't keep up. I build motion-heavy interfaces for a living, mostl...