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- Create comprehensive guide for animated React text effects - Cover 10 key text animation patterns (typewriter, reveal, flip, etc.) - Include Motion vs CSS decision framework - Document accessibility and reduced-motion patterns - Link to sibling button guide and text category - Keep published: false (draft) Co-authored-by: Hari Lamichhane <onwithhari@gmail.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdded a published-disabled guide that catalogs ten animated React text effects. The guide covers preset selection, registry installation, Motion, CSS, WAAPI, accessibility, reduced motion, ecosystem comparisons, constraints, FAQs, and related documentation. ChangesAnimated text effects guide
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- Add Q&A format opening - Add Common misconceptions section with checkable links - Update FAQ with verify-at-publish guidance - Clarify Motion vs CSS framework - Reference llms.txt catalog in install section - Keep published: false (draft) Co-authored-by: Hari Lamichhane <onwithhari@gmail.com>
- Streamline opening with action-first directive - Condense intro into single flowing paragraph - Move common misconceptions inline to intro - Restructure picks section with cleaner formatting - Simplify Motion vs CSS section prose - Tighten accessibility and comparison sections - Update Next steps to reference published blog link - Keep published: false (draft) Co-authored-by: Hari Lamichhane <onwithhari@gmail.com>
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In `@content/docs/guides/animated-react-text-effects.mdx`:
- Line 164: Update the animated React text effects documentation to remove
obsolete GSAP Club-access wording at the referenced SplitText guidance,
replacing “Club-level” and “without GSAP Club” with language describing advanced
or custom GSAP SplitText timelines and pipelines. Preserve the distinction
between kit presets and bespoke GSAP SplitText work.
- Line 236: Update the reduced-motion fallback guidance in the animated text
effects documentation to remove Wave Reveal’s sr-only string from the
recommended fallback components. Keep Wave Reveal referenced only in the
accessibility guidance, while preserving the other reduced-motion
recommendations.
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| Reach for Motion (`motion/react`) when you need scroll-linked values, continuous path motion, or sequenced layout that CSS cannot express cleanly. Scroll Reveal and Circular Text are the clear examples in this list. | ||
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| Motion or GSAP for custom SplitText remains the right tool when you are authoring bespoke letter timelines, scrubbed pin scenes, or Club-level SplitText pipelines. Kits give you product-ready presets; they do not replace a custom Motion or GSAP SplitText build when that is the actual job. See [Motion's React Split Text example](https://motion.dev/examples/react-split-text) when you outgrow presets. |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Replace the obsolete GSAP Club wording.
GSAP 3.13 made SplitText and the formerly Club-only plugins free in the public gsap npm package. At lines 164, 230, and 232, replace “Club-level” and “without GSAP Club” with wording about advanced GSAP SplitText timelines or pipelines. Keep the distinction between kit presets and custom GSAP SplitText work; it describes capability, not Club access.
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In `@content/docs/guides/animated-react-text-effects.mdx` at line 164, Update the
animated React text effects documentation to remove obsolete GSAP Club-access
wording at the referenced SplitText guidance, replacing “Club-level” and
“without GSAP Club” with language describing advanced or custom GSAP SplitText
timelines and pipelines. Preserve the distinction between kit presets and
bespoke GSAP SplitText work.
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| Honor `prefers-reduced-motion`. Prefer components that already wire fallbacks (Glitch Text CSS; Wave Reveal's `sr-only` string). For continuous loops (Circular Text, Shimmer Sweep, cycling flips), pause or render static copy. Hover-only splits need a non-hover presentation. |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Do not present Wave Reveal’s sr-only string as a reduced-motion fallback.
WaveReveal renders the string for assistive technology and applies animation classes to the visible glyphs. It has no prefers-reduced-motion handling. Remove it from the fallback list, and keep it in the accessibility guidance instead.
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In `@content/docs/guides/animated-react-text-effects.mdx` at line 236, Update the
reduced-motion fallback guidance in the animated text effects documentation to
remove Wave Reveal’s sr-only string from the recommended fallback components.
Keep Wave Reveal referenced only in the accessibility guidance, while preserving
the other reduced-motion recommendations.
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review. Visit https://docs.coderabbit.ai/cli?utm_source=ghpr.
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Adds a comprehensive docs guide for animated React text effects at
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