View Transitions API rocks

Chrome for Developers · Intermediate ·📰 AI News & Updates ·3y ago

Key Takeaways

The View Transitions API is used to progressively enhance and animate replacing text with JavaScript, demonstrating its capabilities through a text swap animation.

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[Music] have you seen view transitions yet this API is awesome so I'm using some JavaScript just to text swap letters in here you can see that just had to rate about 600 milliseconds I'm just replacing the text letter here text content but I'm animating it like I showed in the beginning that's using this API start view transition when you call this it takes a picture of all the elements in the Dom before this transformation happens and after and then it gives you an opportunity to toggle the animation and change it so here I'm targeting that H1 where I'm swapping the text inside of it I'm giving it a name called view transition name replace effect and look it's already just crossfading between these but I can do better I can Target the old element that's going out that's replace effect named and I can say hey Fade Out and scale those down and then I can look at the new image and the new text letter that's coming in called replace effect and I can say hey you need to fade in and slide in up and I have this awesome effect here this is a cool API you better go check it out [Music]

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@AdamArgyleInk shows how to progressively enhance and animate replacing text with Javascript. Demo → https://goo.gle/3LeM7fa Blog → https://goo.gle/41MzE89 GUI Challenges → https://goo.gle/GUIchallenges GUI Snippets → https://goo.gle/GUIsnippets Subscribe to Google Chrome Developers → https://goo.gle/ChromeDevs #GUIsnippets
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The View Transitions API allows developers to create smooth animations when replacing text with JavaScript. This API takes a snapshot of the DOM before and after the transformation, enabling the creation of custom animations. By using this API, developers can create engaging and interactive user experiences.

Key Takeaways
  1. Call the startViewTransition function to initiate the animation
  2. Target the elements to be animated using the viewTransitionName property
  3. Define the animation effects for the old and new elements
  4. Use the replaceEffect property to specify the animation effect
  5. Test and refine the animation to achieve the desired effect
💡 The View Transitions API provides a powerful way to create custom animations when replacing text with JavaScript, enabling developers to create engaging and interactive user experiences.

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