Motion View Transition API
Project or product grid whose card cover and title morph into the detail page and back.
Choose the primitives library your project already uses. Both look the same: your theme, not the variant, controls colors, shape, type and motion.
About this motion
What it's for
- Project or product grid whose card cover and title morph into the detail page and back.
- Workspace sections as separate routes that slide by navigation order and reverse on browser back.
- Greenfield Next.js app with the linear or stripe personality, where it is the default navigation motion.
Includes
- View transitions api
- Nextjs app router
- Cross route transition
- Per route transition types
- Shared element morph
- Slide variant
- Fade variant
- Zoom variant
Works with
- Radix UI and Base UI primitives (pick the one your project uses)
- React 19, Next.js App Router and Tailwind CSS 4, installed with the shadcn CLI
- Your theme tokens, in light and dark mode
Install
Included with Agentic UI Kit (one-time license). Install needs your license key: see pricing · connect your project.
Agentic UI CLI
agentic-ui add motion-view-transition-apiInstalls through shadcn and adapts the component to your design tokens.
shadcn CLI
npx shadcn@4.17.0 add @agentic-ui/motion-view-transition-apiUsed in
A standalone component: drop it into any screen.
- Type
- Motion
- Variants
- Radix UI and Base UI
- Themes
- Light and dark
- Widths
- Preview it at desktop, tablet and mobile widths above.
- Motion
- Animated, with a reduced-motion fallback
- npm packages
- None beyond your project's React and Next.js
- Registry dependencies
lib-motion- Files
4 files
- components/agentic-ui/motion-view-transition-api/view-transitions.css
- components/agentic-ui/motion-view-transition-api/index.ts
- components/agentic-ui/motion-view-transition-api/view-transitions.tsx
- components/agentic-ui/motion-view-transition-api/vt-state.ts
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