react-router-transition

A thin layer over react-motion for animating routes in react-router.

Usage no npm install needed!

<script type="module">
  import reactRouterTransition from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/react-router-transition';
</script>

README

React Router Transition

Painless transitions for React Router, powered by React Motion. Example site.

Requirements

To use the latest version of this package (2.x), you'll need to use a version of React compatible with hooks, as well as version 5.x of react-router-dom.

Installation

npm install --save react-router-transition react-router-dom

Example Usage

import { BrowserRouter as Router, Route } from 'react-router-dom';
import { AnimatedSwitch } from 'react-router-transition';

export default () => (
  <Router>
    <AnimatedSwitch
      atEnter={{ opacity: 0 }}
      atLeave={{ opacity: 0 }}
      atActive={{ opacity: 1 }}
      className="switch-wrapper"
    >
      <Route exact path="/" component={Home} />
      <Route path="/about/" component={About}/>
      <Route path="/etc/" component={Etc}/>
    </AnimatedSwitch>
  </Router>
)

.switch-wrapper {
  position: relative;
}

.switch-wrapper > div {
  position: absolute;
}

Docs

Limitations

This library has some obvious limitations, the most marked of which are:

  • no staggering or sequencing of animations
  • no durations or timing functions