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gsap.context() + React + ScrollTrigger

Fritze test
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Hi guys. I'm trying to implement a reusable component with ScrollTrigger, but I'm afraid I got something wrong.
What I want to achieve is to transfer the ScrollTrigger animation to a component that I can use multiple times and in multiple other components. Is this possible? I tried to implement it in a next.js application and created a minimal codepen using React. I hope that my problem will become clear. Thanks a million for your amazing lib btw.

 

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Happy to help! :) 

 

11 minutes ago, Fritze said:

I am new to this reactive and component driven approaches.

 

I'm relatively new to all that myself - and although React often requires you to think a bit different than usual - and thus undoubtedly, gsap.context() is a brilliant tool, especially for animating in the realm of React - I think it helps keeping in mind, that in the end, all of it is 'just' JavaScript logic.

 

Boiling it down to the minimum, I think, your approach would have been somewhat equivalent to try and target the element that is being looped over in a forEach loop like this - which wouldn't work the way you expected either.

 

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Thank you, that clarifies my mistake in no uncertain terms.

I have to say that sometimes it's really hard for me to recognize things around React. Things for me are far more intuitive with good old selectors in a more native environment like shown in your example. However, it is wonderful that GSAP minimizes the use of useRefs by useContext() so wonderfully. I'm really grateful, as it absolutely reduces error sources and code quantity for me.

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