Inspired by the React Transition Group, this tiny library helps you easily perform animations/transitions of your React component in a fully controlled manner, using a Hook API.
- 🍭 Working with both CSS animation and transition.
- 🔄 Moving React components in and out of DOM seamlessly.
- 🚫 Using no derived state.
- 🚀 Efficient: each state transition results in at most one extract render for consuming component.
- 🤏 Tiny: ~1KB(post-treeshaking) and no dependencies, ideal for both component libraries and applications.
🤔 Not convinced? See a comparison with React Transition Group
The initialEntered and mountOnEnter props are omitted from the diagram to keep it less convoluted. Please read more details at the API section.
# with npm
npm install react-transition-state
# with Yarn
yarn add react-transition-stateimport { useTransition } from 'react-transition-state';
/* or import useTransition from 'react-transition-state'; */
function Example() {
const [state, toggle] = useTransition({ timeout: 750, preEnter: true });
return (
<div>
<button onClick={() => toggle()}>toggle</button>
<div className={`example ${state.status}`}>React transition state</div>
</div>
);
}
export default Example;.example {
transition: all 0.75s;
}
.example.preEnter,
.example.exiting {
opacity: 0;
transform: scale(0.5);
}
.example.exited {
display: none;
}import styled from 'styled-components';
import { useTransition } from 'react-transition-state';
const Box = styled.div`
transition: all 500ms;
${({ $status }) =>
($status === 'preEnter' || $status === 'exiting') &&
`
opacity: 0;
transform: scale(0.9);
`}
`;
function StyledExample() {
const [{ status, isMounted }, toggle] = useTransition({
timeout: 500,
mountOnEnter: true,
unmountOnExit: true,
preEnter: true
});
return (
<div>
{!isMounted && <button onClick={() => toggle(true)}>Show Message</button>}
{isMounted && (
<Box $status={status}>
<p>This message is being transitioned in and out of the DOM.</p>
<button onClick={() => toggle(false)}>Close</button>
</Box>
)}
</div>
);
}
export default StyledExample;You can toggle on transition with the useEffect hook.
useEffect(() => {
toggle(true);
}, [toggle]);| React Transition Group | This library | |
|---|---|---|
| Use derived state | Yes – use an in prop to trigger changes in a derived transition state |
No – there is only a single state which is triggered by a toggle function |
| Controlled | No – Transition state is managed internally. Resort to callback events to read the internal state. |
Yes – Transition state is lifted up into the consuming component. You have direct access to the transition state. |
| DOM updates | Imperative – commit changes into DOM imperatively to update classes |
Declarative – you declare what the classes look like and DOM updates are taken care of by ReactDOM |
| Render something in response to state updates | Resort to side effects – rendering based on state update events | Pure – rendering based on transition state |
| Working with styled-components | Your code looks like – &.box-exit-active { opacity: 0; }&.box-enter-active { opacity: 1; } |
Your code looks like – opacity: ${({ state }) => (state === 'exiting' ? '0' : '1')}; It's the way how you normally use the styled-components |
| Bundle size |  |
✅ |
| Dependency count | ✅ |
This CodeSandbox example demonstrates how the same transition can be implemented in a simpler, more declarative, and controllable manner than React Transition Group.
function useTransition(
options?: TransitionOptions
): [TransitionState, (toEnter?: boolean) => void, () => void];| Name | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
enter |
boolean | true | Enable or disable enter phase transitions |
exit |
boolean | true | Enable or disable exit phase transitions |
preEnter |
boolean | Add a 'preEnter' state immediately before 'entering', which is necessary to change DOM elements from unmounted or display: none with CSS transition (not necessary for CSS animation). |
|
preExit |
boolean | Add a 'preExit' state immediately before 'exiting' | |
initialEntered |
boolean | Beginning from 'entered' state | |
mountOnEnter |
boolean | State will be 'unmounted' until hit enter phase for the first time. It allows you to create lazily mounted component. | |
unmountOnExit |
boolean | State will become 'unmounted' after 'exiting' finishes. It allows you to transition component out of DOM. | |
timeout |
number | { enter?: number; exit?: number; } |
Set timeout in ms for transitions; you can set a single value or different values for enter and exit transitions. | |
onStateChange |
(event: { current: TransitionState }) => void | Event fired when state has changed. Prefer to read state from the hook function return value directly unless you want to perform some side effects in response to state changes. Note: create an event handler with useCallback if you need to keep toggle or endTransition function's identity stable across re-renders. |
The useTransition Hook returns a tuple of values in the following order:
- state:
{
status: 'preEnter' |
'entering' |
'entered' |
'preExit' |
'exiting' |
'exited' |
'unmounted';
isMounted: boolean;
isEnter: boolean;
isResolved: boolean;
}- toggle:
(toEnter?: boolean) => void
- If no parameter is supplied, this function will toggle state between enter and exit phases.
- You can set a boolean parameter to explicitly switch into one of the two phases.
- endTransition:
() => void
- Call this function to stop transition which will turn state into 'entered' or 'exited'.
- You will normally call this function in the
onAnimationEndoronTransitionEndevent. - You need to either call this function explicitly in your code or set a timeout value in Hook options.
It's similar to the useTransition Hook except that it manages multiple states in a Map structure instead of a single state.
It accepts all options as useTransition and the following ones:
| Name | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
allowMultiple |
boolean | Allow multiple items to be in the enter phase at the same time. |
The Hook returns an object of shape:
interface TransitionMapResult<K> {
stateMap: ReadonlyMap<K, TransitionState>;
toggle: (key: K, toEnter?: boolean) => void;
toggleAll: (toEnter?: boolean) => void;
endTransition: (key: K) => void;
setItem: (key: K, options?: TransitionItemOptions) => void;
deleteItem: (key: K) => boolean;
}setItem and deleteItem are used to add and remove items from the state map.
MIT Licensed.
