nuxt.js Nuxt.JS and GSAP - Scroll Trigger Animations run immediately on load instead of their trigger points.

[pbj 5 Likes (Newbie)]

Banging my head a bit. I've got a few Scroll Trigger based animations on the home page of a site and it works flawlessly when in local development. It isn't until we've deployed to a production/staging environment does it break. 

 

Effectively what's happening is when we load the site on production/staging all animations run immediately. Not sure if its a component mounting issue (which would mean its not a GSAP issue) or if something is being compiled/computed differently in a live environment? 

 

Each section is setup as follows:

1. Define the animation/scroll trigger in the `mount` lifecycle hook

2. Use `$refs` to pass elements into the animation. 
 

<template>
    <div id="vid-container" class="h-screen w-screen bg-white">
      <video @loadeddata="loaded" class="w-full fixed inset-0 duration-500 transition-opacity opacity-0" :class="{'opacity-100': videoLoaded}" src="https://player.vimeo.com/external/611257045.hd.mp4?s=785a9d52ed5d188f762436b1bb618493f784d3f5&profile_id=174" autoplay loop muted preload></video>
      <svg
        ref="mask"
        class="mask absolute w-full h-full"
      >
        <mask id="mask">
          <rect width="100%" height="100%" fill="white"></rect>
          <text
            
            font-family="Bagnard, serif"
            font-weight="500"
            x="50%"
            y="49%"
            class="origin-center "
            text-anchor="middle"
            transform="scale(15)"
          >
            <tspan x="50%">Freelance</tspan>
            <tspan x="50%" dy="1em">Founders</tspan>
            <tspan style="font-size: .5rem" x="50%" dy="2em">
              ↓
            </tspan>
          </text>
        </mask>

        <rect id="bg" width="100%" height="100%" fill="#fff"></rect>
      </svg>   
    </div>
</template>

<script>
  import { gsap } from "gsap";
  import { ScrollTrigger } from "gsap/ScrollTrigger";
  import { CSSRulePlugin } from "gsap/CSSRulePlugin";
  
  if (process.client) {
    gsap.registerPlugin(ScrollTrigger, CSSRulePlugin);
  }
  
  export default {  
    data() {
      return {
      videoLoaded: false,  
      }
      
    },
    mounted() {
      console.log('hero mounted')
      let width = window.innerWidth
      let speed = 350 //pixels per second
      let endX = width
      let duration = endX / speed
      let ease = "sine.inOut"
      let intro = '';
      
      if (this.$refs.mask) {
        this.$nextTick(() => {
          intro = gsap.timeline({
            onComplete: () => {},
            scrollTrigger:{
              trigger: this.$refs.mask,
              start: "bottom 100%",
              end: "bottom 50%",
              pin: true,
              scrub: true
            }
          });
          
          intro.to(this.$refs.mask, {
            scale: 5,
            opacity: 0,
            duration: 5,
            ease: ease
          }, 'intro')
        }
        )
      }
    },
    methods: {
      loaded() {
        this.videoLoaded = true;
      }
    }
  }
</script>

 

 

 

Staging link example: https://freelance-founders-hgc9zjyrf-progresslabs.vercel.app/

 

FYI - Working on a minimal example to post here shortly. 

 

 

[pbj 5 Likes (Newbie)]

Adding to this. Looks like my plugins aren't being registered even though that code is in there

[GreenSock 18,876 Likes (Superhero)]

Yeah, it looks like you're not loading/registering ScrollTrigger. It's almost surely related to something in Nuxt or a timing issue with your code execution or something. I'm not familiar with Nuxt at all. Did you try verifying that the window/body/document all exist when you try registering/running ScrollTrigger? 

if (process.client) {
  console.log("register", window, document, document && document.body);
  gsap.registerPlugin(ScrollTrigger, CSSRulePlugin);
}

Do you see that console.log() at runtime with all 3 of those values defined? 

[OSUblake 18,534 Likes (Superhero)]

Since Nuxt does SSR, ES Modules might not work unless you transpile them.

 

 

Or you can import the UMD files from the dist folder.

import { ScrollTrigger } from "gsap/dist/ScrollTrigger";
import { CSSRulePlugin } from "gsap/dist/CSSRulePlugin";

 

[pbj 5 Likes (Newbie)]

Hmm still no luck here. 

I've tried:

1. Switching our loading to server side (thinking maybe that was the trick) but nope. 
2. Loaded in UMD modules but nope. 
3. Moving around when we register the plugin, either within the JS export or without the mounted call. 

 

At a loss here. 

[OSUblake 18,534 Likes (Superhero)]

Can you make a minimal demo of the issue? Here's our Nuxt starter template for CodeSanbox.

https://codesandbox.io/s/gsap-nuxt-starter-r5lkg