What problem does it solve?
Provides a production-ready approach for animating UI state changes in React using the native View Transition API, so navigation and content updates feel smooth and intentional instead of abrupt or mismatched across routes and loading states.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Page and component transitions with
<ViewTransition>: Configure enter, exit, update, and share, and apply the critical placement rule so animations actually fire.
- Directional navigation via transition types: Use
addTransitionType to drive forward/back/semantic motion (e.g., list → detail vs tab-to-tab).
- Shared element morphs and composition rules: Animate the same named element across views (e.g., thumbnail → detail image) and combine shared elements with list identity.
- Suspense reveal animations: Animate skeleton-to-content and ensure transitions don’t compete with page navigation.
- Copy-paste CSS animation recipes: Use prebuilt fade/slide/scale/morph/text-morph and reduced-motion handling instead of ad-hoc CSS.
- Next.js App Router integration: Enable
experimental.viewTransition and use transitionTypes on next/link, plus Next.js-specific patterns for loading and dynamic segments.
Quick Start
Ask an AI assistant to implement View Transitions in your React/Next.js app by following the Skill’s implementation workflow and copying the provided CSS recipes into your global stylesheet, then wrapping your page components with correctly configured <ViewTransition> boundaries.
