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REACT'S EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATIONS API

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Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

React's first animation API, `ViewTransition`, is built upon the browser's View Transition API. It offers animation capabilities previously unavailable in React. The View Transition API has limitations like uninterruptible animations and complex pseudo-element management. `ViewTransition` fixes these by integrating deeply with React's render cycle and using asynchronous updates.