Chapter 100: Get started with Vue animations

Core Idea

Learn Motion for Vue animation library: Install, animate HTML and SVG elements with spring animations, staggering effects. Complete guide with examples.

Key Concepts

Why Motion for Vue?: Vue gives you the power to build dynamic user interfaces
Key advantages: Here's when it's the right choice for your project.
When is CSS a better choice?: For simple
Install: Motion for Vue is available via npm:
Nuxt modules: Motion Vue offers Nuxt modules support.
unplugin-vue-components: Motion for Vue also supports unplugin-vue-components to auto-import all components from mo
Enter animation: When a component enters the page
Gestures: <motion /> extends Vue's event system with powerful gesture recognises.
Scroll animations: Motion supports both types of scroll animations

Code Examples

<motion.button :animate="{ opacity: 1 }" />

What it demonstrates: Core usage pattern for Get started with Vue animations.

Anti-patterns

Note from docs: Note: Auto-import currently doesn't support the <motion /> component so you'll need to import it manually.

Key Takeaways

Build for Vue. While other animation libraries are messy to integrate, Motion's declarativ.
Hardware-acceleration. Motion leverages the same high-performance browser animations a.
**Animate anything.*.

Connects To

Vue <motion /> component: related Motion doc page.
Get started with Motion: related Motion doc page.
Vue transitions: related Motion doc page.
Vue gesture animations: related Motion doc page.
Vue scroll animation: related Motion doc page.