I didn’t want to use injectGlobal as suggested in another answer because I needed to make the transitions different per component.
It turns out to be pretty easy – just nest the transition classes in the styling for the component:
import React from "react";
import CSSTransitionGroup from 'react-transition-group/CSSTransitionGroup';
import styled from 'styled-components';
const appearDuration = 500;
const transitionName = `example`;
const Container = styled.section`
font-size: 1.5em;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
&.${transitionName}-appear {
opacity: 0.01;
}
&.${transitionName}-appear-active {
opacity: 1;
transition: opacity ${appearDuration}ms ease-out;
}`;
export default () => {
return (
<CSSTransitionGroup
transitionName={transitionName}
transitionAppear={true}
transitionAppearTimeout={appearDuration}>
<Container>
This will have the appear transition applied!
</Container>
</CSSTransitionGroup>
);
};
Note that I’m using the newer CSSTransitionGroup, rather than ReactCSSTransitionGroup, but it should work for that too.