How to Add Animations with React Transition Group

Step-by-step guide on how to use this library to add animation to your React components

If you are a beginner in React, it may be difficult to include animations within your app. After all, there are many approaches to add animations; and some have higher learning curves than others.

In this article, I’ll introduce React Transition Group and how to use it to add/trigger animations in your React app. Even if you’re a React beginner, you will be able to liven up your app with animations for a better user experience.

Prerequisites

Before we get started, I recommend that you have these prerequisites to follow along:

• Basic React knowledge
• Basic CSS knowledge
• Code editing software

Introduction: What is React Transition Group

React Transition Group is developed by the React developers themselves and is basically a set of components designed to animate React components on mounting and unmounting.

Just to be clear, it is not an animation library. It simply exposes transition stages so that it is easier to manage classes and handle animations when…