What is lottie-react-native?

lottie-react-native is a project that's composed of two main parts:

• The open source project, which is hosted on GitHub. All development, improvement requests, issue reporting, and code hosting happens here. It's the center of the development community and helps update and improve the library as a whole.
• The npm package, where all the new downloadable versions of the library are hosted. Usually, developers would use this npm repository to include lottie-react-native in their React Native projects.

lottie-react-native has a hard dependency on lottie-ios and lottie-android and serves as a wrapper for those two libraries, in which heavy load happens. In fact, in most of React Native's native packages, lottie-react-native works by receiving data from the JavaScript side and then transforming and sending that data to the native libraries (lottie-ios and lottie-android).

In 2021, lottie-react-native became one of the most popular...