Drop-in replacement for ReactCSSTransitionGroup that uses velocity.js instead of CSS transforms. Add your own transitions to `transitions` hash.

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Copyright (c) 2014 Tomas Kafka

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VelocityTransitionGroup.jsx

/**
 * Adapted from https://github.com/Khan/react-components/blob/master/js/timeout-transition-group.jsx
 */

var React = require('react/addons');
var ReactTransitionGroup = React.addons.TransitionGroup;
var Velocity = require('velocity-animate');

var transitions = {
	// Forcefeeding: property order = [after, before]
	'slide-forward': {
		duration: 200,
		enter: {
			translateX: [ '0%', '100%' ],
		},
		leave: {
			translateX: [ '-100%', '0%' ],
		}
	},
	'slide-back': {
		duration: 200,
		enter: {
			translateX: [ '0%', '-100%' ],
		},
		leave: {
			translateX: [ '100%', '0%' ],
		}
	},
	'slideover-forward': {
		duration: 200,
		enter: {
			translateX: [ '0%', '100%' ],
			zIndex: [ 1, 1 ]
		},
		leave: {
			// translateX: [ '0%', '0%' ],
			zIndex: [ 0, 0 ]
		}
	},
	'slideover-back': {
		duration: 200,
		enter: {
			// translateX: [ '0%', '0%' ],
			zIndex: [ 0, 0 ]
		},
		leave: {
			translateX: [ '100%', '0%' ],
			zIndex: [ 1, 1 ]
		}
	},
	default: {
		duration: 200,
		enter: {
			opacity: [ 1, 0 ],
		},
		leave: {
			opacity: [ 0, 1 ],
		}
	}
};

var VelocityTransitionGroupChild = React.createClass({
	propTypes: {
		transitionName: React.PropTypes.string.isRequired,
	},
	_getTransition: function() {
		if (!transitions[this.props.transitionName]) {
			console.warn('TransitionName ' + this.props.transitionName + ' wasn\'t found in VelocityTransitionGroupChild transitions.');
		}
		return transitions[this.props.transitionName] || transitions.default;
	},

	componentWillEnter: function(done) {
		var node = this.getDOMNode();
		var transition = this._getTransition();
		Velocity(
			node,
			transition.enter,
			{
				duration: transition.duration,
				complete: done
			});
	},

	componentWillLeave: function(done) {
		var node = this.getDOMNode();
		var transition = this._getTransition();
		Velocity(
			node,
			transition.leave,
			{
				duration: transition.duration,
				complete: done
			});
	},

	render: function() {
		return React.Children.only(this.props.children);
	}
});

var VelocityTransitionGroup = React.createClass({
	propTypes: {
		transitionName: React.PropTypes.string.isRequired,
	},

	_wrapChild: function(child) {
		return (
			<VelocityTransitionGroupChild
				transitionName={this.props.transitionName}
				>
				{child}
			</VelocityTransitionGroupChild>
		);
	},

	render: function() {
		return (
			<ReactTransitionGroup
				{...this.props}
				childFactory={this._wrapChild}
				/>
		);
	}
});

module.exports = VelocityTransitionGroup;

How does this compare to React Motion or the ReactCSSTransitionGroup?

ReactCSSTransitionGroup have been horrible thus far because they are using css transitions. Oftentimes the browsers doesn't recognize when the transitionEnd event occurs and doesn't remove the element from the DOM

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