transitions-dev
Production-ready CSS transitions for web apps. Use when implementing notification badges, dropdowns, modals, panel reveals, page transitions, card resizes, number pop-ins, text swaps, icon swaps, success checks, avatar group hovers, error state shakes, search/input clear, skeleton loaders, shimmer text, sliding tabs, tooltips, staggered text reveals, card hover tilt, plus-to-menu morph, accordions, toasts, like buttons, learn-more hovers, checkbox checks, spinning counters, toggles, AI thinking states, reasoning streams, streaming text, matrix dot loaders, or banner stacking. Triggers on "add a transition", "animate the dropdown", "make the modal open smoothly", "swap icon", "page slide", "stagger animation", "open / close transition", "make it animate", "fade between", "success animation", "form error", "shake on invalid", "hover lift", "avatar stack hover", "clear the search", "skeleton loader", "loading shimmer", "shimmer text", "sliding tabs", "segmented control", "tooltip", "reveal text", "tilt card", "3D hover tilt", "cursor glare", "plus to menu", "FAB morph", "accordion", "collapsible", "expand / collapse", "disclosure", "toast", "snackbar", "like button", "heart animation", "learn more arrow", "checkbox", "check animation", "spinning counter", "odometer", "slot machine digits", "toggle", "switch", "thinking states", "AI status line", "agent reasoning", "reasoning stream", "streaming text", "stream words in", "matrix loader", "dot loader", "banner stack", "stacked toasts". Also "motion tokens", "scan for ad-hoc transitions", "replace hardcoded durations with motion tokens", "tokenize my animations", and the commands transitions reveal, transitions review, transitions apply, transitions refine.
Install
npx skills add https://github.com/Jakubantalik/transitions.dev --skill transitions-devSpinning counter
When to use
Numbers that change with fanfare: points, rewards, milestones, dashboard KPIs. Each digit is a drum of 0-9 that rolls through the numbers up to its target. Nothing is cropped: the numbers above and below sit behind the middle one, smaller, fainter and blurrier, so it reads as 3D. Digits that do not change stay still, and each target lands with an anticipation and a spring past 100%.
Reach for this over number pop-in when the change should feel like an event rather than an update. The drums are built and driven in JS, so bring the whole script from the recipe. For numbers that update often, use number subtle change instead.
HTML usage
One .t-reel-col per digit: a hidden sizer for the width, plus ten stacked .t-reel-digit cells. JS places each cell per frame from its distance to the middle of the drum. Digits only roll through the numbers on the way to their target; a digit that does not change stays still. The target lands while still travelling in, with a spring past 100%.
Sizes: lengths are in em and --reel-side-blur is a curve on the font size; the script measures them on the drum, so any size works.
The script that drives the drums is in the React tab and the skill recipe.
Tunable variables
The :root defaults below match the live tuning on transitions.dev. Drop them into your global stylesheet once — every transition in this skill reads from semantic names like these, so multiple transitions can share a single :root block.
CSS
The @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) guard at the bottom of the snippet is required — keep it. It zeroes the transition for users who have asked for less motion at the OS level.