Animated Page Transitions

Introduction

This lesson covers page transition animation using the react-transition-group npm package. This package provides the components required to implement these page transitions.

Note: Page transition is simply an animation effect when a page changes. It’s used to improve user experience.

Take a look at the following example of a simple page transition effect. Whenever a menu item is clicked from the navbar, the component loads with a subtle animation.

What is react-transition-group?

The react-transition-group is a package that provides a way to add animation effects to page transitions. It has valuable components that expose the transition stages and add different animation classes accordingly.

Note: The react-transition-group is not an animation library. Rather, it defines transition stages such as the entering or exiting stage of the page. We can use these stages to add appropriate animation classes.

Installing the react-transition-group package

The following command will install this package. However, there’s no ...