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[FEATURE REQUEST] Shared element transitions support

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
frontend, web-dev

Research direction

No repository file, test, or entry point is named. Start by reading the linked shared-element-transitions developer guide and checking the current router transition model; done would mean a defined, browser-supported approach for powering shared element transitions in Solid SPAs.

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Description

enhancement

This is likely out of the scope for the time being, especially since the feature is still locked behind the chrome://flags/#document-transition flag in chrome canary.

Some resources on the incoming API in question:

The transitions function by rendering the soon to be page as a separate DOM structure (kinda similar to solid's Portal) then taking a screenshot of both the previous element and the new element. These screenshots get animated in some form before the new page's contents become interactable again.

It would be really cool to see this feature power solid SPAs as soon as browsers begin to support it.

High level, this could look like:


const App = () => {

    return (
        <div style={{width: "100vw", height: "100vh"}}>

            <NavBar />
            
            <Routes>
                <Route path="/" element={<Dashboard/>} />
                <Route path="/content/:id" element={<Content/>} transition={true}  />
            </Routes>

        </div>
    );
};

it's assumed the user has configured any required css to customize the transition.

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