DIY Transitions: Entry & Exit in React

James Dorr
4 min readAug 10, 2019

React recommends libraries for transitions, but those didn’t work with the library I was already using. I decided to implement my own transitions for adding and deleting elements — and it was really easy!

ATTENTION: React recommends using their libraries for transitions, like react-transition-group.

the Kimmy Schmidt “fascinating transition”
That’s gonna be a… fascinatin’ transition

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James Dorr

Full Stack Web Developer, former English as a foreign language teacher and volleyball coach. All views and opinions are my own.