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Transitions

Nuxt leverages Vue's <Transition> component to apply transitions between pages and layouts.

Page transitions

You can enable page transitions to apply an automatic transition for all your pages.

nuxt.config.ts
export default defineNuxtConfig({
  app: {
    pageTransition: { name: 'page', mode: 'out-in' }
  },
})

If you are changing layouts as well as page, the page transition you set here will not run. Instead, you should set a layout transition.

To start adding transition between your pages, add the following CSS to your app.vue:

app.vue
<template>
  <NuxtPage />
</template>
<style>
.page-enter-active,
.page-leave-active {
  transition: all 0.4s;
}
.page-enter-from,
.page-leave-to {
  opacity: 0;
  filter: blur(1rem);
}
</style>
pages/index.vue
<template>
  <div>
    <h1>Home page</h1>
    <NuxtLink to="/about">About page</NuxtLink>
  </div>
</template>
pages/about.vue
<template>
  <div>
    <h1>About page</h1>
    <NuxtLink to="/">Home page</NuxtLink>
  </div>
</template>

This produces the following result when navigating between pages:

To set a different transition for a page, set the pageTransition key in definePageMeta of the page:

pages/about.vue
<script setup lang="ts">
definePageMeta({
  pageTransition: {
    name: 'rotate'
  }
})
</script>
app.vue
<template>
  <NuxtPage />
</template>
<style>
/* ... */
.rotate-enter-active,
.rotate-leave-active {
  transition: all 0.4s;
}
.rotate-enter-from,
.rotate-leave-to {
  opacity: 0;
  transform: rotate3d(1, 1, 1, 15deg);
}
</style>

Moving to the about page will add the 3d rotation effect:

Layout transitions

You can enable layout transitions to apply an automatic transition for all your layouts.

nuxt.config.ts
export default defineNuxtConfig({
  app: {
    layoutTransition: { name: 'layout', mode: 'out-in' }
  },
})

To start adding transition between your pages and layouts, add the following CSS to your app.vue:

app.vue
<template>
  <NuxtLayout>
    <NuxtPage />
  </NuxtLayout>
</template>
<style>
.layout-enter-active,
.layout-leave-active {
  transition: all 0.4s;
}
.layout-enter-from,
.layout-leave-to {
  filter: grayscale(1);
}
</style>
layouts/default.vue
<template>
  <div>
    <pre>default layout</pre>
    <slot />
  </div>
</template>
<style scoped>
div {
  background-color: lightgreen;
}
</style>
layouts/orange.vue
<template>
  <div>
    <pre>orange layout</pre>
    <slot />
  </div>
</template>
<style scoped>
div {
  background-color: #eebb90;
  padding: 20px;
  height: 100vh;
}
</style>
pages/index.vue
<template>
  <div>
    <h1>Home page</h1>
    <NuxtLink to="/about">About page</NuxtLink>
  </div>
</template>
pages/about.vue
<script setup lang="ts">
definePageMeta({
  layout: 'orange'
})
</script>
<template>
  <div>
    <h1>About page</h1>
    <NuxtLink to="/">Home page</NuxtLink>
  </div>
</template>

This produces the following result when navigating between pages:

Similar to pageTransition, you can apply a custom layoutTransition to the page component using definePageMeta:

pages/about.vue
<script setup lang="ts">
definePageMeta({
  layout: 'orange',
  layoutTransition: {
    name: 'slide-in'
  }
})
</script>

Global settings

You can customize these default transition names globally using nuxt.config.

Both pageTransition and layoutTransition keys accept TransitionProps as JSON serializable values where you can pass the name, mode and other valid transition-props of the custom CSS transition.

nuxt.config.ts
export default defineNuxtConfig({
  app: {
    pageTransition: {
      name: 'fade',
      mode: 'out-in' // default
    },
    layoutTransition: {
      name: 'slide',
      mode: 'out-in' // default
    }
  }
})

If you change the name property, you also have to rename the CSS classes accordingly.

To override the global transition property, use the definePageMeta to define page or layout transitions for a single Nuxt page and override any page or layout transitions that are defined globally in nuxt.config file.

pages/some-page.vue
<script setup lang="ts">
definePageMeta({
  pageTransition: {
    name: 'bounce',
    mode: 'out-in' // default
  }
})
</script>

Disable Transitions

pageTransition and layoutTransition can be disabled for a specific route:

pages/some-page.vue
<script setup lang="ts">
definePageMeta({
  pageTransition: false
  layoutTransition: false
})
</script>

Or globally in the nuxt.config:

nuxt.config.ts
defineNuxtConfig({
  app: {
    pageTransition: false,
    layoutTransition: false
  }
})

JavaScript Hooks

For advanced use-cases, you can use JavaScript hooks to create highly dynamic and custom transitions for your Nuxt pages.

This way presents perfect use-cases for JavaScript animation libraries such as GSAP or Tween.js.

pages/some-page.vue
<script setup lang="ts">
definePageMeta({
  pageTransition: {
    name: 'custom-flip',
    mode: 'out-in',
    onBeforeEnter: (el) => {
      console.log('Before enter...')
    },
    onEnter: (el, done) => {},
    onAfterEnter: (el) => {}
  }
})
</script>

Learn more about additional JavaScript hooks available in the Transition component.

Dynamic Transitions

To apply dynamic transitions using conditional logic, you can leverage inline middleware to assign a different transition name to to.meta.pageTransition.

pages/[id].vue
<script setup lang="ts">
definePageMeta({
  pageTransition: {
    name: 'slide-right',
    mode: 'out-in'
  },
  middleware (to, from) {
    to.meta.pageTransition.name = +to.params.id > +from.params.id ? 'slide-left' : 'slide-right'
  }
})
</script>
<template>
  <h1>#{{ $route.params.id }}</h1>
</template>
<style>
.slide-left-enter-active,
.slide-left-leave-active,
.slide-right-enter-active,
.slide-right-leave-active {
  transition: all 0.2s;
}
.slide-left-enter-from {
  opacity: 0;
  transform: translate(50px, 0);
}
.slide-left-leave-to {
  opacity: 0;
  transform: translate(-50px, 0);
}
.slide-right-enter-from {
  opacity: 0;
  transform: translate(-50px, 0);
}
.slide-right-leave-to {
  opacity: 0;
  transform: translate(50px, 0);
}
</style>
layouts/default.vue
<script setup lang="ts">
const route = useRoute()
const id = computed(() => Number(route.params.id || 1))
const prev = computed(() => '/' + (id.value - 1))
const next = computed(() => '/' + (id.value + 1))
</script>
<template>
  <div>
    <slot />
    <div v-if="$route.params.id">
      <NuxtLink :to="prev">⬅️</NuxtLink> |
      <NuxtLink :to="next">➡️</NuxtLink>
    </div>
  </div>
</template>

The page now applies the slide-left transition when going to the next id and slide-right for the previous:

Transition with NuxtPage

When <NuxtPage /> is used in app.vue, transition-props can be passed directly as a component props to activate global transition.

app.vue
<template>
  <div>
    <NuxtLayout>
      <NuxtPage :transition="{
        name: 'bounce',
        mode: 'out-in'
      }" />
    </NuxtLayout>
  </div>
</template>

Remember, this page transition cannot be overridden with definePageMeta on individual pages.

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