Gesture Transitions Get a Polish Pass
Sebastian Markbåge delivered a comprehensive polish pass for React's gesture transition system with 6 merged PRs focused on cleanup callbacks, gesture events, and animation management. The work addresses browser bugs and adds essential cleanup mechanisms to prevent UI freezing, while introducing new gesture event handlers and improving the developer experience around view transitions.
Duration: PT3M56S
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- Show: React Daily
- Published: 2026-01-20T11:07:17Z
- Audio duration: PT3M56S
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Hey there, React developers! Welcome back to another episode. I'm so glad you're here - grab your favorite morning drink because we've got some really exciting updates from the React team to dive into today.
So yesterday was one of those amazing days where you can just feel the momentum building around a feature. Sebastian Markbåge was absolutely on fire, delivering six thoughtful pull requests that are all about making React's gesture transition system more robust and developer-friendly. And honestly, the attention to…
Let's start with the biggest story - Sebastian tackled a really important problem around cleanup callbacks. You know how when you're working with animations, especially custom ones, you sometimes end up in this tricky spot where things don't clean up properly when a transition gets interrupted? Well, that's exactly…
But that's not all - we also got support for a whole new set of gesture events. PR 35556 introduces onGestureEnter, onGestureExit, onGestureShare, and onGestureUpdate events. These work just like the regular transition events you might already be familiar with, but they're specifically designed for gesture…
Now, here's where it gets really interesting…
There…
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