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Lottie Animation Libraries Create Unacceptable File Size Overhead for Web Applications

Web developers who want rich animations face a trade-off: Lottie produces polished results but its runtime and JSON payloads significantly inflate page weight. This forces teams to choose between visual quality and load performance. The gap in lightweight animation tooling for the web is validated by developers building their own wrappers to solve this.

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