next.js/examples/page-transitions/README.md

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# Example app with custom page transitions

## How to use

### Using `create-next-app`

Download [`create-next-app`](https://github.com/segmentio/create-next-app) to bootstrap the example:

```
npm i -g create-next-app
create-next-app --example page-transitions page-transitions-app
```

### Download manually

Download the example [or clone the repo](https://github.com/zeit/next.js):

```bash
curl https://codeload.github.com/zeit/next.js/tar.gz/canary | tar -xz --strip=2 next.js-canary/examples/page-transitions
cd page-transitions
```

Install it and run:

```bash
yarn
yarn dev
```

Deploy it to the cloud with [now](https://zeit.co/now) ([download](https://zeit.co/download))

```bash
now
```

## The idea behind the example

Being able to animate out old content and animate in new content is a fairly standard thing to do these days. We can hijack the route change and do any animations that we want: sliding, cross fading, scaling, et al.