This is a library that I've used before to handle some complicated animation: https://github.com/joshwcomeau/react-flip-move https://github.com/joshwcomeau/reac

This is a library that I've used before to handle some complicated animation: https://github.com/joshwcomeau/react-flip-move https://github.com/joshwcomeau/react-flip-move No longer actively maintained, though, so you might want to check out https://github.com/aholachek/react-flip-toolkit https://github.com/aholachek/react-flip-toolkit instead.