View Transitions in React

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Ryan tells Sam about his experiments with using the new View Transitions API in a React photo gallery app. He talks about how he likes the flexibility of the API, how to think about integrating it into any client-rendered app regardless of the framework, and how he used a Promise with an Effect to tie a View Transition to a React Transition.

Topics include:

• 0:00 - Intro
• 1:11 - What it’s like to integrate View Transitions with React
• 7:30 - How View Transitions work
• 16:09 - Building a gallery that animates photos across page navigations
• 19:38 - How to use startViewTransition for enter/update/exit animations
• 26:52 - Using a Promise to link a View Transition to a React Transition
• 43:02 - Do View Transitions replace framework-specific animation libraries?
• 45:17 - Using DevTools to preview and tweak transitions

Links:

• easings.net
• Ionic Framework's animation curves
• Shu’s next-view-transitions library