What problem does it solve?
It removes friction between designer exports and production web playback by providing clear export guidance, integration patterns, performance strategies, and utility scripts to render After Effects animations as lightweight, interactive web assets.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Formats & Export: Guidance for JSON and compressed dotLottie exports and After Effects/Bodymovin settings to reduce file size and ensure compatibility.
- Framework Integrations: Ready patterns and component templates for React, Vue, Svelte, and plain HTML using lottie-web, dotlottie-react, and lottie-react.
- Performance & Runtime: Recommendations for SVG vs Canvas, web worker (DotLottieWorker) rendering, lazy loading, device-pixel optimizations, and memory-safe lifecycle handling.
- Utilities: Scripts to generate component boilerplate and to optimize Lottie JSON files, plus reference docs and a starter template for quick adoption.
- Use Case: Ship interactive onboarding, animated icons, and scroll-driven illustrations with minimal performance impact.
Quick Start
Load a .lottie file in your React app with DotLottieReact, add playback controls from the generated boilerplate component, and run the optimize_lottie.py script to produce a production-ready animation file.