View Transition API and scroll-driven animations: game changers for hybrid app development

The rapid development of web APIs (keyword: Project Fugu) has increasingly closed the gap that existed between progressive web apps (PWA) or hybrid development approaches and native apps. Visually, they are also barely distinguishable from native apps. However, when it comes to animations, native apps have always been one step ahead thanks to the availability of native animation APIs. Until now, complex animations such as container transforms were practically impossible to implement in web apps without immense effort.

That’s right. They WERE. This gap can now also be closed thanks to the new View Transition API and Scroll-Driven Animations. And the best thing about it: everything is done almost exclusively using CSS. Curious? Then Sascha Lehmann from Thinktecture will give you an overview of the new APIs, how you can use them effectively in your project and where their limits lie.