css-animation-patterns

To maintain 60fps performance in CSS animations, animate composite-only properties like `transform` and `opacity` to avoid triggering layout recalculations, leveraging the browser's rendering pipeline for smooth transitions.

Scroll-driven animations link element progression to scroll position using modern CSS APIs, enabling effects like fade-ins as elements enter the viewport without relying on heavy JavaScript scroll listeners.

Make CSS transitions accessible by respecting the `prefers-reduced-motion` media query, which adjusts or disables animations to provide a safe, inclusive experience for users with motion sensitivities.

The View Transitions API enables seamless DOM state changes by rendering old and new states simultaneously, allowing smooth single-page application page transitions without complex manual overlay logic.

Yes, understanding the CSS rendering pipeline is required to implement these animation patterns effectively, ensuring you target composite layers rather than triggering expensive layout or paint phases.

You should avoid CSS animations when complex timeline orchestration or physics-based motion logic is required, as these patterns focus primarily on composite properties, scroll-driven effects, and view transitions.