Theme toggle effect

Here's how we can create theme toggle effect using view transitions api

This is literally the two lines of js you need

if (!document.startViewTransition) switchTheme()
document.startViewTransition(switchTheme);

Then you can write your css as you wish to

For example

::view-transition-group(root) {
  animation-timing-function: var(--expo-out);
}

::view-transition-new(root) {
  mask: url('data:image/svg+xml,<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 40 40"><defs><filter id="blur"><feGaussianBlur stdDeviation="2"/></filter></defs><circle cx="20" cy="20" r="18" fill="white" filter="url(%23blur)"/></svg>') center / 0 no-repeat;
  animation: scale 1s;
}

::view-transition-old(root),
.dark::view-transition-old(root) {
  animation: none;
  z-index: -1;
}
.dark::view-transition-new(root) {
  animation: scale 1s;
}

@keyframes scale {
  to {
    mask-size: 200vmax;
  }
}

This will create a nice circular transition effect when you switch themes.

For more examples, visit theme-toggle.rdsx.dev

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