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REACT VIEWTRANSITION: SMOOTH ANIMATIONS MADE SIMPLE

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Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

React is introducing a new experimental `ViewTransition` component that wraps the browser's View Transition API to create smooth, declarative animations between component states without animation libraries. The component automatically handles enter/exit animations, shared element transitions, and list filtering when used within React's concurrent features like `startTransition` or `useDeferredValue`. It allows CSS customization for different animation effects.