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App Router: View Transitions / gesture navigation not implemented

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#1,539 opened on May 22, 2026

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Description

This issue was created by an agent analysing CI failures from the Next.js Deploy Suite (vinext main vs Next.js v16.2.6, 2026-05-22).

Problem

Gesture transitions for App Router (View Transitions API integration) are not implemented. The target page never becomes visible after a gesture-driven navigation.

[data-testid="target-page"] never visible after gesture nav

Estimated Impact

~1 test failures across the deploy suite.

Affected Test Suites

  • test/e2e/app-dir/gesture-transitions/gesture-transitions.test.ts

Recommendation

  1. Reproduce first in vinext's own test suite. Set up the gesture-transitions fixture and assert the target page becomes visible after a swipe-style navigation.

  2. Implement View Transitions integration. Wrap navigation commits in document.startViewTransition(...) and forward gesture intent to the navigation. Likely a follow-up to #1366-#1368.

Part of #1328.

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Research direction
Reproduce the failing test in the gesture transitions fixture, then implement View Transitions integration by wrapping navigation commits in document.startViewTransition() and forwarding gesture intent to navigation.
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Feature
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3
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1-3 hours
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Active
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Clear
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75