Jun 3, 2023 Author - Sai gowtham

How to create Vue router transitions

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In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to create transitions between routes in our vue app.

Vue.js provides us a <transistion> component by wrapping that component with <router-view> we can easily add transitions to routes.

Note: This tutorial assumes that you already familiar with Vue transitions. If you don’t know about how transitions work in Vue then check out Intro to Vue.js transitions

App.vue

<template>
  <div id="app">
    <ul>
      <router-link to="/">Home</router-link>
      <router-link to="/user">User</router-link>
      <router-link to="/contact">Contact us</router-link>
    </ul>
    <transition>      <router-view class="view"/>    </transition>  </div>
</template>

<script>
export default {};
</script>

In the above example, we wrapped our <router-view> component with <transistion> component but still we didn’t see any transitions because we need to add a name attribute with transition class name to <transistion> component.

Slide transition example

App.vue

<template>
  <div id="app">
    <ul>
      <router-link to="/">Home</router-link>
      <router-link to="/user">User</router-link>
      <router-link to="/contact">Contact us</router-link>
    </ul>
    <transition name="slide" mode="out-in">      <router-view class="view"/>
    </transition>
  </div>
</template>

<script>
export default {};
</script>

<style>

/*slide transition*/.slide-enter-active,.slide-leave-active {  transition: transform 0.4s ease-out;}.slide-enter {  transform: translateX(-30%);}.slide-leave-to {  transform: translateX(30%);}</style>

Here we also added mode='out-in' attribute where out-in means the old component is removed first before adding a new component.

vue-router-slide-transition-example

Flip transition example

Let’s add a flip transition effect to our routes by removing slide transition.

App.vue

<template>
  <div id="app">
    <ul>
      <router-link to="/">Home</router-link>
      <router-link to="/user">User</router-link>
      <router-link to="/contact">Contact us</router-link>
    </ul>
    <transition name="flip" mode="out-in">      <router-view class="view"/>
    </transition>
  </div>
</template>

<script>
export default {};
</script>

<style>
/*flip transition*/
.flip-enter-active,.flip-leave-active {  transition: transform 0.3s ease-out;}.flip-enter {  transform: rotateY(90deg);}.flip-leave-to {  transform: rotateY(90deg);}</style>