Styled Transition Group

Inspired by issue #1036 of styled-components, this package exports a styled object for generating animations with react-transition-group's CSSTransition.

Getting Started

Add styled-transition-group and it's peer dependencies to your package: styled-transition-group@1 is compatible with styled-components v2 - v3. styled-transition-group@2 is compatible with styled-components v4.

yarn add styled-components react-transition-group
yarn add styled-transition-group

Usage

The transition object has the same interface as styled-component's styled object, except it wraps the target component in a CSSTransition component and passes down it's props.

Basic

To style a transition state use an &:{state} selector. See react-transition-group's docs for available transition states (State names are hyphenated).

Live example on Stackblitz

import transition from "styled-transition-group";
 
const Fade = transition.div`
  &:enter { opacity: 0.01; }
  &:enter-active {
    opacity: 1;
    transition: opacity 1000ms ease-in;
  }
  &:exit { opacity: 1; }
  &:exit-active {
    opacity: 0.01;
    transition: opacity 800ms ease-in;
  }
`;

Attach transition props

Styled component's attrs() method can be used to attach transition props to a component. Props unrelated to CSSTransition are passed to the child component.

Live example on Stackblitz

import transition from "styled-transition-group";
 
const Fade = transition.div.attrs({
  unmountOnExit: true,
  timeout: 1000
})`
  &:enter { opacity: 0.01; }
  &:enter-active {
    opacity: 1;
    transition: opacity 1000ms ease-in;
  }
  &:exit { opacity: 1; }
  &:exit-active {
    opacity: 0.01;
    transition: opacity 800ms ease-in;
  }
`;

Transition Group

Styled transitions can be used with TransitionGroup

Live example on Stackblitz

Selectors

Using styled-transition-group's css helper, selectors can target the transition it's included in (&) or other transition components. It replaces the selectors with the actual styled-transition-group component's class names.

Warning: Nesting doesn't work here. & targets the top level component regardless of nesting.

import styled from "styled-components";
import transition, { css } from "styled-transition-group";
 
const Fade = transition.div` /* ... */ `;
 
const style = css`
  ${Fade}:enter & {
    color: green;
  }
  ${Fade}:exit & {
    color: red;
  }
`;
 
const Button = styled.div`
  ${style} /* ... */
`;

Live example on Stackblitz