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Ah apologises I just wanted to reduce the number of "off ramps" and as the other comment says, I am sort of assuming that people might be familiar with them but indeed they might be more fitting to your project (Popmotion if you want very low-level JS animations that just outputs values and Framer Motion if you want a high level React library that handles gestures and layout animations)

But hezags comment below has kindly provided the links.

1 - https://www.framer.com/motion/

2 - https://popmotion.io/

To be fair, Framer Motion and Popmotion are really big names in the web animation space, so it is probably safe to assume most people with even a passing interest in the past few years will have heard of them.