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Problem

Blocks in Demo appear instantly, so pages feel flat and static as you scroll. Scroll-in animations are standard on current websites, and Demo showcases what a Dextinity site looks like — it should have them, and afterwards the Starter.

Solution

The animation setup needs no dependencies — CSS transitions plus IntersectionObserver:

  • AnimateBoxInOnScroll — fades and slides content in when it enters the viewport (direction, delay, offset, fullHeight)
  • AnimateBoxInOnLoad — the same effect on mount, for the stage blocks above the fold
  • AnimateGroup — reveals siblings together once one of them becomes visible; disabledBreakpoints drops the stagger on breakpoints where it would look wrong
  • useGlobalScrollSpeed — shortens delays and triggers earlier while the page is scrolled fast

Animations are skipped in the block preview and under prefers-reduced-motion.

All page content blocks are animated. ProductListBlock, NewsListBlock and NewsDetailBlock are left alone: they are unstyled stubs demonstrating block loaders, not designed content.

Example

<AnimateGroup>
    <ListBlock
        data={data}
        block={(block, index) => (
            <AnimateBoxInOnScroll direction="bottom" delay={200 * index} offset={300}>
                <KeyFactItemBlock data={block} />
            </AnimateBoxInOnScroll>
        )}
    />
</AnimateGroup>

ListBlock change

Staggering a list needs the item position. Mapping over data.blocks directly would lose ListBlock's per-item error boundary and its empty-list preview skeleton, so ListBlock's block function now receives the index as a second argument instead. This is backwards compatible; a changeset is included.

Screenshots/screencasts

Recorded against the demo site running locally (Chromium, prefers-reduced-motion toggled per clip).

All animated blocks, desktop (1440×900)

02allblocksdesktop.webm

All animated blocks, mobile (390×844) — AnimateGroup stagger disabled on xs/sm

05allblocksmobile.webm

prefers-reduced-motion: reduce — content appears instantly, no fade

06reducedmotiondesktop.webm

Accordion expand — content inside a collapsed panel animates in on expand

07accordionexpanddesktop.webm

Further information

MediaGalleryBlock animates only the swiper, not its navigation buttons. Animating them too would need a wrapper to carry their absolute positioning, and introducing one would mean restructuring the SCSS for little gain.

Task: DEX-3157

VPS-julia and others added 2 commits September 2, 2026 12:08
Rendering a list item based on its position required bypassing ListBlock
and mapping over data.blocks directly, which loses the per-item error
boundary and the empty-list preview skeleton. The block function now
receives the index as its second argument, so staggered scroll-in
animations can be built on top of ListBlock.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Viewport animations are expected of a current website, so port the setup
from the vivid-websites project into Demo. It needs no dependencies:
AnimateBoxInOnScroll fades and slides content in via IntersectionObserver,
AnimateBoxInOnLoad does the same on mount for the stage blocks above the
fold, and AnimateGroup lets siblings reveal together and drops the stagger
on the breakpoints where it would look wrong.

Animations are skipped in the block preview and under
prefers-reduced-motion, and speed up while the page is scrolled fast.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change adds load and scroll animation components, shared viewport and scroll tracking, animation-group initialization, reduced-motion and no-script handling, and animations across common and page blocks. ListBlock now passes each item index to its callback.

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Animation rollout

Layer / File(s) Summary
Animation primitives and runtime
demo/site/src/util/animations/*, demo/site/src/util/useWindowSize.ts, demo/site/src/app/layout.tsx
Added load and scroll animation components, directional styles, shared scroll-speed and viewport tracking, page-bottom detection, animation-group initialization, reduced-motion and print handling, and no-script visibility styles.
ListBlock index contract
packages/site/site-react/src/blocks/factories/ListBlock.tsx, .changeset/list-block-index.md
ListBlock now passes each mapped item index to the block callback. The changeset documents the updated callback and staggered-animation example.
Common block animation integration
demo/site/src/common/blocks/*
Added scroll animations to common content, media, table, text/image, TipTap, and contact-form blocks.
Page block animation integration
demo/site/src/documents/pages/blocks/*
Added load and scroll animations to stage, billboard, full-width image, key-facts, slider, and teaser blocks. Several mapped blocks use index-based delays and breakpoint-specific group settings.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant BrowserViewport
  participant IntersectionObserver
  participant AnimateBoxInOnScroll
  participant useGlobalScrollSpeed
  participant useScrolledToPageBottom
  participant AnimateGroup
  BrowserViewport->>IntersectionObserver: update element intersection
  IntersectionObserver->>AnimateBoxInOnScroll: report visibility
  useGlobalScrollSpeed->>AnimateBoxInOnScroll: provide scroll speed
  useScrolledToPageBottom->>AnimateBoxInOnScroll: report page-bottom state
  AnimateBoxInOnScroll->>AnimateGroup: report visibility
  AnimateBoxInOnScroll->>AnimateBoxInOnScroll: apply visible animation state
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@VPS-julia VPS-julia changed the title Dex 3157 demo block animations Demo: Animate blocks when they enter the viewport Sep 2, 2026
@VPS-julia VPS-julia added the needs-starter-pr Change in Demo that needs to be changed in Starter as well. label Sep 2, 2026
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Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR introduces a broadly applied animation system with new viewport observers, scroll and resize listeners, state coordination, and wrapper elements across many existing page blocks. Its existing-path runtime and layout impact, together with the remaining KeyFacts breakpoint concern, warrant human review.

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In `@demo/site/src/common/blocks/ContactFormBlock.tsx`:
- Around line 127-128: Update the ContactFormBlock markup around
AnimateBoxInOnScroll so the form remains the direct PageLayout grid item and its
grid-column styling applies; either move the animation wrapper inside the form
or otherwise avoid wrapping the form with a non-display-contents element, while
preserving the existing submit behavior and animation.

In `@demo/site/src/util/animations/AnimateGroup.tsx`:
- Line 52: Update the AnimateGroup state and child-notification flow so the
configured breakpoint’s disabled status is resolved before initially visible
AnimateBoxInOnScroll children can call onVisible. Expose the resolved
disableAnimateGroup state and defer group visibility notification until that
state is available, preserving normal animation behavior when the breakpoint is
enabled.

In `@demo/site/src/util/animations/useGlobalScrollSpeed.ts`:
- Line 17: Update the scroll-speed notification flow in useGlobalScrollSpeed so
notifyListeners is coalesced to a bounded rate and only called when the
effective speed bucket changes, preventing every scroll event from recreating
observers in AnimateBoxInOnScroll. Preserve the existing speed calculation while
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…akpoints

AnimateGroup measured its breakpoint in an effect, so `disabled` was still
false during the first client render. Child effects run before the parent's,
which let a child that was in view on page load report visibility before the
group knew it was disabled. `visible` latched true and forced every sibling
visible, defeating `disabledBreakpoints` entirely.

The group now distinguishes "not yet measured" from "enabled" and ignores
reports until the breakpoint is known; children defer reporting until then.
Measuring during render instead is not an option, as the width is unknown on
the server and would break hydration.

Also move the contact form's grid placement onto the animation wrapper: the
wrapper became the PageLayout grid item, so `grid-column` on the nested form
no longer applied and the form collapsed into a single column.

Also coalesce scroll-speed updates to one per frame and publish them in
buckets. A continuous value re-rendered every subscriber on every scroll
event, and since the speed feeds the observer's rootMargin, it rebuilt every
IntersectionObserver too — 13970 constructions across 120 scroll events on
the fixtures page, now 5080.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LFDZ3g1sfyyWx8wnn7rg9W
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This reverts commit c35f794.

The .playwright-cli/ entry is already on main, added by #6306, so this
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Reverting also keeps this pull request to the block animation changes.

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I didn't review AnimateBoxInOnScroll, AnimateGroup, and useGlobalScrollSpeed in detail. From what I've seen, this seems like a lot of effects, DOM events and JS. Have we considered alternative paths, for instance, CSS scroll-driven animations?

Is this something we want in every project?

Comment on lines +11 to +12
// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
children: ReactElement<any>;

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Instead of any and ESLint disable we could use PropsWithChildren.

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Done in f60d370. Nothing in the component relied on children being a single element — it only renders them into a wrapper div — so PropsWithChildren drops both the any and the eslint-disable. It also matches the React guideline that children are typed via PropsWithChildren rather than an explicit field.


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delay?: number;
duration?: number;
fullHeight?: boolean;
onChange?: (inView: boolean) => void;

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Claude noted that no caller uses onChange, fullHeight, innerClassName or duration – could we remove them?

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Removed in 615eb4a. Confirmed no caller passes any of the four — the only props in use across the 17 call sites are direction, delay, offset and className.

Two follow-on details:

  • duration was always its default, so it becomes a module constant animationDuration = 500 rather than disappearing outright.
  • fullHeight was the only user of .fullHeight in the SCSS module, so that rule went with it.

One left in place: AnimateBoxInOnLoad still has a duration prop that no caller passes either. Your comment was scoped to AnimateBoxInOnScroll, so I didn't touch it — happy to remove it too if you want the same treatment.


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Removed the AnimateBoxInOnLoad duration prop too, in c93de8a — so both animation components are now down to the props their callers actually use.

Worth noting what came out with it. The SCSS read animation-duration: var(--animation-duration, 0.8s), and with the prop gone nothing sets that property here — but custom properties inherit. An AnimateBoxInOnScroll ancestor sets --animation-duration on its own container, so a nested on-load box would have picked up a scroll-driven duration, including the shortened one used during fast scrolling. No block nests them that way today, but the indirection had no remaining purpose and could only misbehave, so the rule is now a literal 0.8s.

Verified on the stage block: three boxes still animate, animation-duration is 0.8s, the 0s / 0.15s / 0.3s stagger is intact, all end at opacity 1, and no --animation-duration is inherited from anywhere.


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I didn't review AnimateBoxInOnScroll, AnimateGroup, and useGlobalScrollSpeed in detail. From what I've seen, this seems like a lot of effects, DOM events and JS. Have we considered alternative paths, for instance, CSS scroll-driven animations?

Is this something we want in every project?

I implemented the animations like they are in the vivid-websites (as the ticket clearly states: DEX-3157).

Anyway, I will open another PR using css only. We have a meeting of the styling focus group on thursday. Maybe its worth discussing this there? @mariokemetinger @VPS-MartinKaRo

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Anyway, I will open another PR using css only.

I've already asked Claude if it's possible to achieve the same effects CSS-only: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YAMMJd8chERCVvPiRGJJpj. Currently it isn't, we'll have to wait for broader animation-trigger-support. So we'll have to go with JS for now.

We have a meeting of the styling focus group on thursday. Maybe its worth discussing this there?

This is a good idea regardless.

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Five major findings on the animation helpers, posted inline. Nothing blocking — the earlier threads on the AnimateGroup breakpoint race and the ContactFormBlock grid placement look properly resolved at 3427980.

Three of the five are about the observer lifecycle (AnimateBoxInOnScroll, useWindowSize); the other two are a missed disabledBreakpoints on TeaserBlock and content that never reveals without JS or in print.

<div className={styles.pageLayoutContent}>
<div className={styles.itemWrapper}>
<ListBlock data={data} block={(block) => <TeaserItemBlock data={block} />} />
<AnimateGroup>

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[major] TeaserBlock group is missing disabledBreakpoints

Below md the .itemWrapper grid is a single column, so the teasers stack vertically and AnimateGroup reveals all of them as soon as the first one is in view. The lower teasers have finished animating before the user reaches them — the case KeyFactsBlock already guards against.

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<AnimateGroup disabledBreakpoints={["xs", "sm"]}>

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Confirmed and fixed in 3239c25. .itemWrapper only gets grid-template-columns from md up, so below that it is a single column and the teasers stack — the same situation KeyFactsBlock guards, and actually worse, since KeyFacts still has two columns below md.

Verified on /en/fixtures-blocks/teaser:

viewport per-item delays
390px 0ms, 0ms, 0ms, 0ms, 0ms
1440px 0ms, 100ms, 200ms, 300ms, 400ms

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useEffect(() => {
const scrollContainer = refScrollContainer.current;
if (!scrollContainer || previewType === "BlockPreview") {
return;
}

// Dynamic offset for trigger animation earlier on faster scrolling
const dynamicOffsetScrollSpeed = Math.min(scrollSpeed > 2 ? scrollSpeed * 10 : 0, 300);
// Dynamic offset page height for adjusting offset relative to page height
const dynamicOffsetPageHeight = windowSize ? (windowSize?.height / 2.5) * -1 + offset : offset;
const triggerAnimationOffset = dynamicOffsetScrollSpeed + dynamicOffsetPageHeight;

const observer = new IntersectionObserver(
(entries) => {
entries.forEach((entry) => {
if (entry.isIntersecting) {
setTriggerAnimation(true);
onChange?.(entry.isIntersecting);
if (!groupDisabled) {
groupOnVisible?.();
}
}
});
},
{
rootMargin: `0px 0px ${direction === "bottom" ? triggerAnimationOffset + 40 : direction === "top" ? triggerAnimationOffset - 40 : triggerAnimationOffset}px 0px`,
threshold: 0,
},
);

observer.observe(scrollContainer);

return () => {
if (scrollContainer) {
observer.unobserve(scrollContainer);
}
};
}, [offset, previewType, direction, windowSize, onChange, scrollSpeed, groupOnVisible, groupDisabled]);

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[major] Observer keeps being rebuilt after the element has animated

scrollSpeed is in the dependency array, so every bucket change tears down and recreates the IntersectionObserver of every mounted box — including boxes that already animated and can never change again. On a page with many blocks this is the scroll jank the bucketing was meant to remove.

Suggestion: return early once the animation has run:

if (!scrollContainer || previewType === "BlockPreview" || triggerAnimation) {
    return; // nothing left to observe
}

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Fixed in dfafa7d, using your early return with triggerAnimation added to the dependency array so the effect re-runs once and then tears the observer down for good.

Measured on /en/fixtures-blocks (130 animated boxes, 120 scroll events, counting IntersectionObserver constructions):

constructions per box
before any of this 13,970 107.5
bucketing alone (5526998) 5,080 39.1
+ this commit and b269b6b 577 4.4

So the bucketing was indeed only part of it — you were right that the rebuild was the dominant cost.


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Comment on lines +19 to +23
const handleResize = () => {
setWindowSize(getSize());
};

window.addEventListener("resize", handleResize);

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[major] Every animated box owns a resize listener and rebuilds its observer on resize

Each AnimateBoxInOnScroll calls useWindowSize, so a page with 30 animated blocks registers 30 unthrottled resize listeners, and windowSize is a new object on every event, which re-creates all 30 observers. On mobile the collapsing URL bar fires resize during normal scrolling.

Suggestion: share one measurement through a module-level subscription, the way useGlobalScrollSpeed already does, and publish only when the value actually changes:

if (next.height === current.height && next.width === current.width) return;

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Fixed in b269b6b, following the useGlobalScrollSpeed pattern you pointed at: one module-level resize listener serves every subscriber, and it only publishes when the measured size actually differs — so the mobile URL bar collapsing mid-scroll no longer invalidates anything.

Combined with dfafa7d this took observer constructions on the fixtures page from 13,970 to 577 over 120 scroll events.

One detail worth flagging: the shared value is reset to undefined when the last subscriber unmounts, so a remount re-measures rather than reusing a stale size from a previous page.


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.scrollContainer {
opacity: 0;
transition:
opacity var(--animation-duration, 500ms) ease-in-out var(--animation-delay, 0ms),
transform var(--animation-transform-duration, 1000ms) cubic-bezier(0.22, 1, 0.36, 1) var(--animation-delay, 0ms);
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[major] Content stays invisible without JavaScript and in print

.scrollContainer ships with opacity: 0 in the server-rendered HTML and is only revealed by JS. With JS disabled, a hydration failure, or when printing a page the user has not scrolled through, the page body is blank.

Suggestion:

@media print {
    .scrollContainer {
        opacity: 1;
        transform: none;
        transition: none;
    }
}

plus a <noscript> style override in the root layout that does the same.


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Fixed in 9327903, both halves.

For print I reused the existing reduced-motion block rather than adding a second one — it already resets to exactly the visible state print needs, so the selector became @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce), print. Same treatment for AnimateBoxInOnLoad: it runs as a CSS animation and so survives no-JS on its own, but print engines are inconsistent about animation end state, so it is covered too.

For no-JS, the <noscript> override lives in the root layout and interpolates the hashed class name from the SCSS module, which avoids hard-coding a generated string:

<noscript>
    <style>{`.${animateBoxInOnScrollStyles.scrollContainer} { opacity: 1; transform: none; transition: none; }`}</style>
</noscript>

It does mean the root layout imports an animation style module — if you'd rather not couple those, the alternative is a stable global class on the container.

Verified with scripting disabled: everything below the stage on /en/fixtures-blocks/text-and-content — headings, rich text, text/image, lists, both tables — renders fully opaque. That whole region was blank before. Under emulateMedia({ media: "print" }) all 127 scroll containers report opacity 1.


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const dynamicOffsetPageHeight = windowSize ? (windowSize?.height / 2.5) * -1 + offset : offset;
const triggerAnimationOffset = dynamicOffsetScrollSpeed + dynamicOffsetPageHeight;

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[major] Negative bottom rootMargin can leave the last block hidden

dynamicOffsetPageHeight makes the bottom margin negative (roughly -130px to -230px at common viewport sizes), so the trigger line sits well above the viewport bottom. A short block that only ever reaches that band — the last block above a short footer — never intersects and stays at opacity: 0 for good.

Suggestion: add a fallback for the end of the document in the observer effect:

if (window.innerHeight + window.scrollY >= document.documentElement.scrollHeight - 1) {
    setTriggerAnimation(true);
}

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Fixed in 6fd47ad, though not with the check placed in the observer effect — that spot has a hole worth knowing about.

The observer effect only re-runs when one of its dependencies changes, and during a slow scroll the speed never leaves bucket 0, so the effect never re-runs and the check never fires. That is exactly the case where a reader would notice the last block missing: scrolling gently to the end of the page.

So the check needs a scroll signal of its own. To avoid giving every box its own listener — the problem in your useWindowSize comment — it is a shared module-level subscription in the same shape as useGlobalScrollSpeed: one scroll listener for the whole page, publishing only when the at-bottom state flips. Boxes that have not animated yet trigger on it and notify their group as the observer callback would.

resize is included alongside scroll, since a viewport change can put the page at its end without any scrolling.


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The explicit `children: ReactElement<any>` field needed an eslint-disable for
`no-explicit-any`, and nothing in the component relies on children being a
single element — it only renders them into a wrapper div.

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No caller passes `onChange`, `fullHeight`, `innerClassName` or `duration`.
They were ported over from the original implementation and only widen the
API surface of a demo component. `duration` was always its default, so it
becomes a module constant, and the `fullHeight` style goes with the prop.

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`.itemWrapper` only becomes a multi-column grid from `md` up, so on smaller
viewports the teasers stack. The group then revealed all of them as soon as
the first scrolled into view, and the lower ones had finished animating
before the user reached them. `KeyFactsBlock` already guards the same way.

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`scrollSpeed` and `windowSize` are observer dependencies, so every bucket
change rebuilt the IntersectionObserver of every mounted box — including
boxes that had already animated and can never change back. On pages with
many blocks that is the scroll cost the speed bucketing was meant to avoid.

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The observer's bottom rootMargin is negative, putting the trigger line
above the viewport bottom. A short block that only ever reaches that band —
the last one above a short footer — never intersects and stays at opacity 0.

Checking for the end of the document only where the observer is set up
would miss slow scrolling, which never changes the speed bucket and so
never re-runs that effect. A shared subscription, following the pattern of
useGlobalScrollSpeed, keeps this to one listener for the whole page.

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Every AnimateBoxInOnScroll calls useWindowSize, so a page with 30 animated
blocks registered 30 resize listeners. Each returned a fresh object, which
invalidated the observer effect of all 30 boxes. On mobile the collapsing
URL bar fires resize during ordinary scrolling, so this ran mid-scroll.

One module-level listener now serves every subscriber and only publishes
when the measured size actually changes.

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.scrollContainer ships as opacity: 0 in the server-rendered HTML and is only
revealed by JS, so with scripting off or after a hydration failure the page
body is blank. Printing a page the reader has not scrolled through drops the
same content.

The reduced-motion reset already restores exactly the visible state both
cases need, so print reuses it, and a noscript override covers the no-JS
case. AnimateBoxInOnLoad runs as a CSS animation and works without JS, but
is covered for print as well.

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No caller passes it, so the animation always ran at the SCSS fallback.

The `var(--animation-duration, 0.8s)` indirection goes with it: custom
properties inherit, so with nothing setting it here an AnimateBoxInOnScroll
ancestor would have leaked its own duration — including the shortened one it
uses while scrolling fast — into an animation that is not scroll-driven.

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@VPS-Obi does this really need my review, since @VPS-MartinKaRo and @mariokemetinger are already reviewing this?

Measuring into the shared value on mount changed it without notifying the
subscribers already mounted. A later check() then saw no change and stayed
quiet, so those boxes kept a stale value and never ran the page-bottom
fallback.

The new subscriber is now seeded from the shared value and check() does the
measuring, so a change reaches everyone.

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@VPS-Ricky no, although your opinion would be invaluable. Let's discuss this in today's meeting.

I'll also remove @VPS-thodax's review request since he originally implemented this solution.

/**
* The current viewport size, measured once and shared by all subscribers.
*/
export const useWindowSize = (): WindowSize | undefined => {

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could we also use e.g. https://usehooks-ts.com/react-hook/use-window-size from usehooks-ts

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Yes, but this would add a listener for every block, see #6299 (comment).

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