Learn how to enhance user experience by making intriguing but smooth visual CSS transitions in Nuxt.js applications.

Introduction

Good animation is invisible. You shouldn’t notice that you’re looking at animation. – Pasquale D’Silva

CSS transitions are a type of animation that enhance user experience by creating smooth visual continuity between state changes. Good transitions should be almost unnoticeable, while poorly designed transitions can create a visible drag or janky experience in your application.

In this post, I will demonstrate how to create awesome transitions in Nuxt.js, starting with the basics of how to work with Nuxt.js in building an app. Please note that you should have some familiarity with Vue.js to be able to follow along with this tutorial.

What are CSS transitions?

CSS transitions occur when a CSS property changes from one value to another over a period of time. For example, if we wanted to change the color of an element from red to white, we could use a transition to change from one color to the other.

Because transitions are intended to be fluid and not abrupt, they can help create better user experience, provide visual cues, maintain context and continuation, and improve user engagement.

In CSS, transitions are controlled using the shorthand transition property, with sub-properties like transition-duration, transition-timing-function, and transition-delay that enable us to add a transition effect to any valid element.

Transitions are supported on most browsers, although there are some minor issues with Internet Explorer and Safari.

Getting started with Nuxt.js

Nuxt.js is a free, open-source, modern web application framework based on Vue.js, Node.js, webpack, and Babel. Nuxt.js allows us to create three types of applications, each depending on the purpose of our build:

• Static pages
• Single-page applications
• Server side-rendered (SSR) applications

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