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iOS App Store

An example of animating cards inspired by the iOS App Store using Motion for React's layout animations.

Time
5 min
Difficulty
Advanced
Access
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Introduction

In this tutorial, we'll build an App Store-inspired card animation using Motion for React. This example shows how to create smooth, app-store-style transitions when opening and closing content cards.

We'll learn to use Motion APIs including:

  • The motion component to create animated elements
  • layoutId for smooth transitions between entirely different components (in this case the menu and the opened item)
  • AnimatePresence to handle elements entering and exiting the DOM

This technique creates fluid transitions between the card grid and expanded detail views, similar to what you'd see in the iOS App Store.