lucide-motion-vue

What it does

lucide-motion-vue is an animated icon library for Vue 3 applications. It provides 546 Lucide icons with built-in animations that can be triggered on hover, tap, or when elements come into view. Icons are drop-in components and tree-shakeable, meaning developers only load the ones they use. The library includes a live gallery for browsing available icons.

Who it is for

Vue 3 developers building web applications that need animated iconography. This applies to designers and frontend teams at startups, agencies, and established companies. The library suits projects where icon animations improve user experience without requiring custom animation code.

Pricing

The library is free and open-source.

How it stands out

The creator combined two existing sources of animated icons—animate-ui (originally React-only with shadcn integration) and lucide-animated.com—into a single Vue package. Since the two sources did not share identical animations or icon sets, the combination produces what the creator describes as the largest animated icons library available for Vue from one source. Most animated icon libraries require developers to choose between limited options or integrate multiple packages. This library consolidates them, plus the creator added quality-of-life improvements beyond the original libraries.

The icons are Lucide-based, meaning they follow consistent design language and styling. Tree-shaking support ensures applications do not bundle unused icons, keeping build sizes small.

What a founder should check

Anyone considering a competing animated icon library should verify three things:

Incumbent usage. Lucide is already the de facto icon standard in the Vue ecosystem. Check how widely developers have already adopted Lucide in their projects and whether the friction of switching to a new animated variant is low enough to justify adoption.

Maintenance burden. Animated icon libraries require ongoing updates whenever base icon sets change. A founder should understand the maintenance cost of staying synchronized with Lucide's icon additions and deprecations, especially if combining multiple upstream sources as this project does.

Switching costs for early adopters. Once developers integrate animated icons into production applications, replacing the library becomes costly. Verify whether lucide-motion-vue has reached sufficient stability and community trust to avoid being abandoned, and whether the API design is flexible enough to support future enhancements without breaking changes.