vercel-react-view-transitions

vercel-react-view-transitions is a skill for Claude Code from ariadoss/superskills. It costs 127 tokens per session (2,375 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for animating changes in React interfaces with the browser's View Transition API, which creates transitions between old and new screen states.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add page transitions, shared-element effects, list movement, loading reveals, and enter-or-exit animations in React applications.
Why use it?
It helps route changes, loading states, list rearrangements, and component changes feel connected instead of appearing as abrupt replacements. Browsers without support can skip the animations.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the superskills plugin — 197 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to add page transitions, shared-element effects, list movement, loading reveals…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ariadoss/superskills/react-view-transitions
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ariadoss/superskills --skill react-view-transitions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ariadoss/superskills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00127 $0.02375
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.01188
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00475
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00237

Measured 6d ago against content hash fab1434238ba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vercel-react-view-transitions scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

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Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

design-skills/react-view-transitions/SKILL.md · 284 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 284 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

React View Transitions

Animate between UI states using the browser's native document.startViewTransition. Declare what with <ViewTransition>, trigger when with startTransition / useDeferredValue / Suspense, control how with CSS classes. Unsupported browsers skip animations gracefully.

When to Animate

Every <ViewTransition> should communicate a spatial relationship or continuity. If you can't articulate what it communicates, don't add it.

Implement all applicable patterns from this list, in this order:

Priority Pattern What it communicates
1 Shared element (name) "Same thing — going deeper"
2 Suspense reveal "Data loaded"
3 List identity (per-item key) "Same items, new arrangement"
4 State change (enter/exit) "Something appeared/disappeared"
5 Route change (layout-level) "Going to a new place"

This is an implementation order, not a "pick one" list. Implement every pattern that fits the app. Only skip a pattern if the app has no use case for it.

Choosing Animation Style

Context Animation Why
Hierarchical navigation (list → detail) Type-keyed nav-forward / nav-back Communicates spatial depth
Lateral navigation (tab-to-tab) Bare <ViewTransition> (fade) or default="none" No depth to communicate
Suspense reveal enter/exit string props Content arriving
Revalidation / background refresh default="none" Silent — no animation needed

Reserve directional slides for hierarchical navigation (list → detail) and ordered sequences (prev/next photo, carousel, paginated results). For ordered sequences, the direction communicates position: "next" slides from right, "previous" from left. Lateral/unordered navigation (tab-to-tab) should not use directional slides — it falsely implies spatial depth.


Availability

  • Next.js: Do not install react@canary — the App Router already bundles React canary internally. ViewTransition works out of the box. npm ls react may show a stable-looking version; this is expected.
  • Without Next.js: Install react@canary react-dom@canary (ViewTransition is not in stable React).
  • Browser support: Chromium 111+, Firefox 144+, Safari 18.2+. Graceful degradation on unsupported browsers.

Read the full file on GitHub · 284 lines

Changes

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  1. 6d ago First seen · 284 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A fab1434238ba

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vercel-react-view-transitions is a skill published in the GitHub repository ariadoss/superskills (9 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 2,375 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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