React Framer

This is a React renderer for Framer! You can write React components that render Framer layers.

You can try it out in your browser using this codepen template: https://codepen.io/pen?template=BJjyMR

Or play with this more fully-featured HSL color-picker prototype (originally written by the Framer team): https://dabbott.github.io/react-framer/example

This project is a proof-of-concept and is missing a lot of React/Framer features. I'm not sure how well it works with Framer Studio, if at all.

Why?

Framer is great for interaction design. React is great for building complex UIs. Why not combine the two and get the best of both worlds?

A react-framer component looks something like this:

const Label = ({ text }) => (
  <Layer
    x={Align.center}
    y={Align.center}
    height={46}
    width={200}
    backgroundColor={"rgba(0,0,0,0.5)"}
    borderRadius={100}
  >
    <Text
      x={Align.center}
      y={Align.center}
      width={200}
      text={text}
      color={"white"}
      fontSize={17}
      fontWeight={600}
      textAlign={"center"}
      lineHeight={46}
    />
  </Layer>
);

To see more, check out the color-picker example code: https://github.com/dabbott/react-framer/blob/master/example/app.js

Instructions

Make sure you have yarn installed and run:

yarn
yarn build

Then, open example/index.html in Chrome/Safari to preview the sample app.

Hacking

Run the webpack dev server with:

yarn dev

Then, navigate to http://localhost:8081/example/ in Chrome/Safari to preview the sample app.