Chapter 64: CSS spring animations for React, Astro and Vue

Core Idea

Generate spring animations as plain CSS with Motion, on the server or in the browser. Works with React Server Components, Astro, Vue and CSS-in-JS.

Key Concepts

• AI editors: The Motion AI Kit enables your AI code editor to generate CSS springs without needing to i
• Import: To generate our spring CSS rules
• Overview: spring has two features that makes it perfect for CSS generation.
• Server generation: With React Server Components (RSC)
• React Server Components: With React Server Components (RSC)
• Client generation: You can set transition on an element at runtime
• style attribute: You can set transition on an element at runtime
• CSS-in-JS: CSS-in-JS follows the same basic approach of string concatination
• Styled Components: In Astro

Code Examples

import { spring } from "motion"

• What it demonstrates: Core usage pattern for CSS spring animations for React, Astro and Vue.

Key Takeaways

1. React Server Components.
2. Via the style attribute.
3. CSS-in-JS (Styled Components, Tamagui).
4. Astro.
5. React.

Connects To

• Generate CSS springs with your LLM: related Motion doc page.
• spring: related Motion doc page.
• animate(): related Motion doc page.
• Easing functions: related Motion doc page.
• Layout animations: related Motion doc page.