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

Example app with custom page transitions

How to use

Using create-next-app

Download 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:

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:

yarn
yarn dev

Deploy it to the cloud with now (download)

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.