React - animate mount and unmount of a single component

Question

Something this simple should be easily accomplished, yet I\'m pulling my hair out over how complicated it is.

All I want to do is animate the mounting & unmounti

Answer 1

Here my 2cents: thanks to @deckele for his solution. My solution is based on his, it's the stateful's component version, fully reusable.

here my sandbox: https://codesandbox.io/s/302mkm1m.

here my snippet.js:

import ReactDOM from "react-dom";
import React, { Component } from "react";
import style from  "./styles.css"; 

class Tooltip extends Component {

  state = {
    shouldRender: false,
    isMounted: true,
  }

  shouldComponentUpdate(nextProps, nextState) {
    if (this.state.shouldRender !== nextState.shouldRender) {
      return true
    }
    else if (this.state.isMounted !== nextState.isMounted) {
      console.log("ismounted!")
      return true
    }
    return false
  }
  displayTooltip = () => {
    var timeoutId;
    if (this.state.isMounted && !this.state.shouldRender) {
      this.setState({ shouldRender: true });
    } else if (!this.state.isMounted && this.state.shouldRender) {
      timeoutId = setTimeout(() => this.setState({ shouldRender: false }), 500);
      () => clearTimeout(timeoutId)
    }
    return;
  }
  mountedStyle = { animation: "inAnimation 500ms ease-in" };
  unmountedStyle = { animation: "outAnimation 510ms ease-in" };

  handleToggleClicked = () => {
    console.log("in handleToggleClicked")
    this.setState((currentState) => ({
      isMounted: !currentState.isMounted
    }), this.displayTooltip());
  };

  render() {
    var { children } = this.props
    return (
      

        {this.state.shouldRender && (
          

            
{children}
          
        )}

        
      
    );
  }
}


class App extends Component{

  render(){
  return (
    
 
       this.refs.tooltipWrapper.handleToggleClicked()}>
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        Here a children
      
    
  )};
}

const rootElement = document.getElementById("root");
ReactDOM.render(, rootElement);