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Sebastian Markbåge 800c9db22e ViewTransitions in Navigation (#32028)
This adds navigation support to the View Transition fixture using both
`history.pushState/popstate` and the Navigation API models.

Because `popstate` does scroll restoration synchronously at the end of
the event, but `startViewTransition` cannot start synchronously, it
would observe the "old" state as after applying scroll restoration. This
leads to weird artifacts. So we intentionally do not support View
Transitions in `popstate`. If it suspends anyway for some other reason,
then scroll restoration is broken anyway and then it is supported. We
don't have to do anything here because this is already how things worked
because the sync `popstate` special case already included the sync lane
which opts it out of View Transitions.

For the Navigation API, scroll restoration can be blocked. The best way
to do this is to resolve the Navigation API promise after React has
applied its mutation. We can detect if there's currently any pending
navigation and wait to resolve the `startViewTransition` until it
finishes and any scroll restoration has been applied.


https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f53b3282-6315-4513-b3d6-b8981d66964e

There is a subtle thing here. If we read the viewport metrics before
scroll restoration has been applied, then we might assume something is
or isn't going to be within the viewport incorrectly. This is evident on
the "Slide In from Left" example. When we're going forward to that page
we shift the scroll position such that it's going to appear in the
viewport. If we did this before applying scroll restoration, it would
not animate because it wasn't in the viewport then. Therefore, we need
to run the after mutation phase after scroll restoration.

A consequence of this is that you have to resolve Navigation in
`useInsertionEffect` as otherwise it leads to a deadlock (which
eventually gets broken by `startViewTransition`'s timeout of 10
seconds). Another consequence is that now `useLayoutEffect` observes the
restored state. However, I think what we'll likely do is move the layout
phase to before the after mutation phase which also ensures that
auto-scrolling inside `useLayoutEffect` are considered in the viewport
measurements as well.
2025-01-08 18:57:54 -05:00
Sebastian Markbåge 3a5496b3f5 [Fiber] Use className on <ViewTransition> to assign view-transition-class (#31999)
Stacked on #31975.

This is the primary way we recommend styling your View Transitions since
it allows for reusable styling such as a CSS library specializing in
View Transitions in a way that's composable and without naming
conflicts. E.g.

```js
<ViewTransition className="enter-slide-in exit-fade-out update-cross-fade">
```

This doesn't change the HTML `class` attribute. It's not a CSS class.
Instead it assign the `view-transition-class` style prop of the
underlying DOM node while it's transitioning.

You can also just use `<div style={{viewTransitionClass: ...}}>` on the
DOM node but it's convenient to control the Transition completely from
the outside and conceptually we're transitioning the whole fragment. You
can even make Transition components that just wraps existing components.
`<RevealTransition><Component /></RevealTransition>` this way.

Since you can also have multiple wrappers for different circumstances it
allows React's heuristics to use different classes for different
scenarios. We'll likely add more options like configuring different
classes for different `types` or scenarios that can't be described by
CSS alone.

## CSS Modules

```js
import transitions from './transitions.module.css';

<ViewTransition className={transitions.bounceIn}>...</ViewTransition>
```

CSS Modules works well with this strategy because you can have globally
unique namespaces and define your transitions in the CSS modules as a
library that you can import. [As seen in the fixture
here.](https://github.com/facebook/react/commit/8b91b37bb8b4add5f3f8be5ef8f49bb23966b13b#diff-b4d9854171ffdac4d2c01be92a5eff4f8e9e761e6af953094f99ca243b054a85R11)

I did notice an unfortunate bug in how CSS Modules (at least in Webpack)
generates class names. Sometimes the `+` character is used in the hash
of the class name which is not valid for `view-transition-class` and so
it breaks. I had to rename my class names until the hash yielded
something different to work around it. Ideally that bug gets fixed soon.

## className, rly?

`className` isn't exactly the most loved property name, however, I'm
using `className` here too for consistency. Even though in this case
there's no direct equivalent DOM property name. The CSS property is
named `viewTransitionClass`, but the "viewTransition" prefix is implied
by the Component it is on in this case. For most people the fact that
this is actually a different namespace than other CSS classes doesn't
matter. You'll most just use a CSS library anyway and conceptually
you're just assigning classes the same way as `className` on a DOM node.

But if we ever rename the `class` prop then we can do that for this one
as well.
2025-01-08 13:22:06 -05:00
Sebastian Markbåge a4d122f2d1 Add <ViewTransition> Component (#31975)
This will provide the opt-in for using [View
Transitions](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/View_Transition_API)
in React.

View Transitions only trigger for async updates like `startTransition`,
`useDeferredValue`, Actions or `<Suspense>` revealing from fallback to
content. Synchronous updates provide an opt-out but also guarantee that
they commit immediately which View Transitions can't.

There's no need to opt-in to View Transitions at the "cause" side like
event handlers or actions. They don't know what UI will change and
whether that has an animated transition described.

Conceptually the `<ViewTransition>` component is like a DOM fragment
that transitions its children in its own isolate/snapshot. The API works
by wrapping a DOM node or inner component:

```js
import {ViewTransition} from 'react';

<ViewTransition><Component /></ViewTransition>
```

The default is `name="auto"` which will automatically assign a
`view-transition-name` to the inner DOM node. That way you can add a
View Transition to a Component without controlling its DOM nodes styling
otherwise.

A difference between this and the browser's built-in
`view-transition-name: auto` is that switching the DOM nodes within the
`<ViewTransition>` component preserves the same name so this example
cross-fades between the DOM nodes instead of causing an exit and enter:

```js
<ViewTransition>{condition ? <ComponentA /> : <ComponentB />}</ViewTransition>
```

This becomes especially useful with `<Suspense>` as this example
cross-fades between Skeleton and Content:

```js
<ViewTransition>
  <Suspense fallback={<Skeleton />}>
    <Content />
  </Suspense>
</ViewTransition>
```

Where as this example triggers an exit of the Skeleton and an enter of
the Content:

```js
<Suspense fallback={<ViewTransition><Skeleton /></ViewTransition>}>
  <ViewTransition><Content /></ViewTransition>
</Suspense>
```

Managing instances and keys becomes extra important.

You can also specify an explicit `name` property for example for
animating the same conceptual item from one page onto another. However,
best practices is to property namespace these since they can easily
collide. It's also useful to add an `id` to it if available.

```js
<ViewTransition name="my-shared-view">
```

The model in general is the same as plain `view-transition-name` except
React manages a set of heuristics for when to apply it. A problem with
the naive View Transitions model is that it overly opts in every
boundary that *might* transition into transitioning. This is leads to
unfortunate effects like things floating around when unrelated updates
happen. This leads the whole document to animate which means that
nothing is clickable in the meantime. It makes it not useful for smaller
and more local transitions. Best practice is to add
`view-transition-name` only right before you're about to need to animate
the thing. This is tricky to manage globally on complex apps and is not
compositional. Instead we let React manage when a `<ViewTransition>`
"activates" and add/remove the `view-transition-name`. This is also when
React calls `startViewTransition` behind the scenes while it mutates the
DOM.

I've come up with a number of heuristics that I think will make a lot
easier to coordinate this. The principle is that only if something that
updates that particular boundary do we activate it. I hope that one day
maybe browsers will have something like these built-in and we can remove
our implementation.

A `<ViewTransition>` only activates if:

- If a mounted Component renders a `<ViewTransition>` within it outside
the first DOM node, and it is within the viewport, then that
ViewTransition activates as an "enter" animation. This avoids inner
"enter" animations trigger when the parent mounts.
- If an unmounted Component had a `<ViewTransition>` within it outside
the first DOM node, and it was within the viewport, then that
ViewTransition activates as an "exit" animation. This avoids inner
"exit" animations triggering when the parent unmounts.
- If an explicitly named `<ViewTransition name="...">` is deep within an
unmounted tree and one with the same name appears in a mounted tree at
the same time, then both are activated as a pair, but only if they're
both in the viewport. This avoids these triggering "enter" or "exit"
animations when going between parents that don't have a pair.
- If an already mounted `<ViewTransition>` is visible and a DOM
mutation, that might affect how it's painted, happens within its
children but outside any nested `<ViewTransition>`. This allows it to
"cross-fade" between its updates.
- If an already mounted `<ViewTransition>` resizes or moves as the
result of direct DOM nodes siblings changing or moving around. This
allows insertion, deletion and reorders into a list to animate all
children. It is only within one DOM node though, to avoid unrelated
changes in the parent to trigger this. If an item is outside the
viewport before and after, then it's skipped to avoid things flying
across the screen.
- If a `<ViewTransition>` boundary changes size, due to a DOM mutation
within it, then the parent activates (or the root document if there are
no more parents). This ensures that the container can cross-fade to
avoid abrupt relayout. This can be avoided by using absolutely
positioned children. When this can avoid bubbling to the root document,
whatever is not animating is still responsive to clicks during the
transition.

Conceptually each DOM node has its own default that activates the parent
`<ViewTransition>` or no transition if the parent is the root. That
means that if you add a DOM node like `<div><ViewTransition><Component
/></ViewTransition></div>` this won't trigger an "enter" animation since
it was the div that was added, not the ViewTransition. Instead, it might
cause a cross-fade of the parent ViewTransition or no transition if it
had no parent. This ensures that only explicit boundaries perform coarse
animations instead of every single node which is really the benefit of
the View Transitions model. This ends up working out well for simple
cases like switching between two pages immediately while transitioning
one floating item that appears on both pages. Because only the floating
item transitions by default.

Note that it's possible to add manual `view-transition-name` with CSS or
`style={{ viewTransitionName: 'auto' }}` that always transitions as long
as something else has a `<ViewTransition>` that activates. For example a
`<ViewTransition>` can wrap a whole page for a cross-fade but inside of
it an explicit name can be added to something to ensure it animates as a
move when something relates else changes its layout. Instead of just
cross-fading it along with the Page which would be the default.

There's more PRs coming with some optimizations, fixes and expanded
APIs. This first PR explores the above core heuristic.

---------

Co-authored-by: Sebastian "Sebbie" Silbermann <silbermann.sebastian@gmail.com>
2025-01-08 12:11:18 -05:00