I strongly recommend looking at React Router v4 and the authors' provided animation example before choosing this library.

React Router Transition

Transitions for React Router. Exports a simple component for easily declaring mounting and unmounting transitions. Built for react-router, powered by react-motion. Some demos

import { RouteTransition } from 'react-router-transition';

// in your root app component:
<div>
  <RouteTransition
    pathname={this.props.location.pathname}
    atEnter={{ opacity: 0 }}
    atLeave={{ opacity: 0 }}
    atActive={{ opacity: 1 }}
  >
    {this.props.children}
  </RouteTransition>
</div>

Installation

npm install --save react-router-transition

Usage

RouteTransition requires a few props:

• pathname: the key signifying the transitionable route, most typically the pathname (required)
• component: the element type ('div', 'span', etc.) to wrap transitioning routes. use false to transition routes themselves (this will require consuming a style prop in your route components).
• atEnter: an object of interpolatable style values for a route that is mounting (required)
• atLeave: an object of interpolatable style values for a route that is unmounting (required)
• atActive: interpolatable style values for a route that has mounted (required)
• mapStyles: an optional function to transform styles that aren't 1:1 (e.g. animating translateX or other values of transform)
• runOnMount: a boolean to signal whether or not to run the transition on initial RouteTransition mount

and supports a couple optional props:

• className: applies to the wrapper component
• style: applies to the wrapper component

If you want more granular control over the transition, pass in spring objects accordingly. For more information on springs, check out react-motion's documentation.

An example of a transition that shifts the routes to the left:

<RouteTransition
  pathname={this.props.location.pathname}
  atEnter={{ translateX: 100 }}
  atLeave={{ translateX: -100 }}
  atActive={{ translateX: 0 }}
  mapStyles={styles => ({ transform: `translateX(${styles.translateX}%)` })}
>
  {this.props.children}
</RouteTransition>

It's also trivial to build out presets and toggle between them to handle pop events differently:

const styles = this.props.location.action === 'POP'
  ? popStateStyles
  : pushStateStyles;

<RouteTransition
  pathname={this.props.location.pathname}
  {...styles}
/>

Styling

Currently, react-router-transition requires that the RouteTransition be absolutely positioned. This can be accomplished through either setting the style values programmatically using the mapStyles prop, the style prop, or using CSS.

Flexbox is not currently supported for the transitioning element.

Nesting Transitions

Currently, nesting transitions requires some extra logic as the transitions themselves are usually coupled to the pathname. The way around this is to set the RouteTransition's pathname to the pathname of the current, transitionable route.

This means that if you have a transition at the root level of your tree, the pathname for that RouteTransition should match the root-level route (e.g. /route-a or /route-b). Any subsequent, deeper RouteTransitions should refer to their own, specific paths as well (e.g. the pathnames for nested transitions within /route-a would appear as /route-a/foo or /route-a/bar).