What problem does it solve?
Implementing smooth, native-feeling UI transitions in React apps can be verbose and brittle without the right abstractions. This skill provides guidance and patterns to leverage the browser's View Transition API, enabling deterministic, predictable animations for page navigations, shared elements, and Suspense reveals.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Provide a <ViewTransition> boundary to declare how content transitions (enter/exit/update/share) are animated.
- Use
addTransitionType for directional navigation (forward/back) and other context-specific motions.
- Implement shared element transitions (morph) to preserve visual continuity across routes.
- Coordinate Suspense reveals with separate transitions to animate loading content without clobbering page nav.
- Integrate with Next.js (experimental viewTransition,
transitionTypes on Link) for server and client components.
- Ensure accessibility with reduced-motion handling and graceful degradation on unsupported browsers.
- Supplied with ready-to-use CSS recipes for common patterns (fade, slide, morph, etc.).
Quick Start
Start by wrapping components with a <ViewTransition> boundary and apply directional, shared-element, and suspense-reveal patterns to achieve native-like UI transitions in React and Next.js.
