Animations are a neat way to give a finishing touch to your web app. As developers, we often keep animations towards the end of the implementation and focus on the functional spec. A key reason for this is the feeling of complexity that comes with animations. But in reality, most animations are not more than a couple of code lines away. And once added, animations dramatically improve the UX of the overall web app, making it more intuitive and appealing. Thus, it’s beneficial to know implementation techniques for at least the basic animations.

In this guide, we’ll explore animations using a simple tab pane example. We often get to use tabbed navigation in our views. In the jQuery days, our tabs would have worked perfectly when the necessary libraries were imported. But with React, we need to add a bit more work to make the UX intuitive and appealing to the user.

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