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Stacked on #522 (Aperture Reveal). Merge that first, then retarget this to main.

Why

Wheel scrolling moved the page in steps of about 100px, so every scroll-linked animation advanced in visible jumps, and most transitions used soft or default easing curves. This adds smooth wheel scrolling on the same clock as our animations, and a set of house easing tokens.

What changed

Smooth wheel scrolling (components/smooth-scroll.tsx, mounted once in the root layout)

  • Lenis with lerp: 0.14 and wheelMultiplier: 1.1, run on Motion's frame loop so scroll and animation share one clock per frame.
  • Inner scroll areas keep native scrolling: the sidebar, code blocks, menus and contained previews.
  • Stops while a Radix dialog or menu locks body scroll (data-scroll-locked).
  • Touch and keyboard stay native. Reduced motion turns smoothing off (Lenis default).

Motion tokens (styles/globals.css, lib/motion.ts)

  • ease-out → cubic-bezier(0.22, 1, 0.36, 1), ease-in → (0.64, 0, 0.78, 0), ease-in-out → (0.4, 0, 0, 1) (same start as before, longer settle).
  • New ease-glide, ease-snap and ease-overshoot.
  • A plain transition now defaults to the house ease-out at 200ms, so the 74 component files that use transition without an ease class pick it up.
  • lib/motion.ts mirrors the curves, durations and staggers for Motion.

Bug fix: the site defined its custom curves under Tailwind v3's --transition-timing-function-* names, which v4 ignores.

  • ease-slow silently fell back to the default curve in the previews of 5 components.
  • section-reveal's animation declaration referenced an empty variable, which made the whole declaration invalid.

These are renamed to --ease-*, and --ease-minor-spring now matches the value the docs tell readers to use.

Docs: a "Smooth scrolling" section in Aperture Reveal and Stacked Sections, plus the October changelog.

Test plan

  • pnpm build passes
  • One 110px wheel notch eases over about 20 frames instead of jumping; the docs sidebar keeps native scrolling
  • Opening the search dialog stops Lenis, and closing it resumes
  • Table-of-contents anchor links behave as before
  • ease-slow now compiles; the token values apply site-wide
  • Try the scroll feel on a trackpad and a mouse wheel in Safari and Firefox

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  • New Features
    • Added smoother wheel scrolling across the site while preserving native touch and keyboard scrolling, independent inner scroll areas, and reduced-motion behavior.
    • Added shared motion settings for easing, durations, and staggered animations.
    • Added guidance for the Aperture Reveal scroll component, including accessibility and reduced-motion behavior.
  • Documentation
    • Updated October release highlights and added smooth-scrolling guidance.

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The pull request adds Lenis-based smooth scrolling to the root layout, introduces JavaScript and CSS motion tokens, updates motion documentation, and adds a guide for Aperture Reveal.

Changes: Aperture Reveal Documentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Aperture Reveal guide
content/docs/scroll/aperture-reveal.mdx
Documents installation, composition, scroll-driven behavior, responsive layouts, props, accessibility, and reduced-motion presentation.

Site Motion

Layer / File(s) Summary
Lenis scrolling and root integration
package.json, components/smooth-scroll.tsx, app/layout.tsx
Adds the Lenis dependency and a client component that advances Lenis through Motion’s frame loop. It synchronizes Lenis with document scroll locks and renders the component in the root layout.
JavaScript and CSS motion tokens
lib/motion.ts, styles/globals.css
Adds JavaScript easing, duration, and stagger tokens with a CSS formatter. Defines CSS easing tokens and updates the section-reveal animation to use --ease-apple.
Motion documentation and release notes
content/docs/scroll/stacked-sections.mdx, content/docs/changelog/2026-10.mdx, content/docs/changelog/index.mdx
Documents Lenis setup and cleanup. Updates October release notes with smooth scrolling, motion tokens, and the Tailwind v4 easing-class fix.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

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sequenceDiagram
  participant RootLayout
  participant SmoothScroll
  participant MotionFrame
  participant Lenis
  participant MutationObserver
  RootLayout->>SmoothScroll: renders the scrolling component
  SmoothScroll->>Lenis: creates the scrolling instance
  MotionFrame->>SmoothScroll: provides frame updates
  SmoothScroll->>Lenis: forwards frame timestamps
  MutationObserver->>SmoothScroll: reports scroll-lock mutations
  SmoothScroll->>Lenis: stops or restarts scrolling
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A restored page can leave the Aperture Reveal action non-clickable until scrolling resumes. This existing issue remains open, but the reviewed changes do not introduce or worsen it.

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// Sidebars, code blocks, menus, and contained previews keep their own scrolling.
allowNestedScroll: true,
prevent: (node) => node.closest("[data-lenis-prevent], [role='dialog']") !== null,
stopInertiaOnNavigate: true,

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P2 Badge Handle same-page anchors while Lenis is settling

stopInertiaOnNavigate only resets Lenis for links whose pathname changes, while anchors remains disabled. If a user clicks the plain hash links in components/toc.tsx or the skip link while wheel interpolation is still running, the browser performs the native anchor jump but Lenis remains in its smooth-scrolling state and the next frame writes the previous animated position, pulling the page away from the requested heading. Enable Lenis anchor handling or explicitly reset it for same-page hash navigation.

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Comment thread components/smooth-scroll.tsx Outdated
else lenis.start();
};
const observer = new MutationObserver(syncLock);
observer.observe(document.body, { attributes: true, attributeFilter: ["data-scroll-locked"] });

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P2 Badge Coordinate Lenis with the existing body-lock hook

This observer only notices Radix's data-scroll-locked attribute, but SplitReveal defaults to lockScroll and useLockBody locks through inline overflow and fixed-position styles without setting that attribute. While its preload overlay is active, wheel input still advances Lenis's target; when the hook restores its captured scroll position, the next Lenis frame can overwrite it and jump the demo underneath or immediately after the reveal. Stop Lenis for that lock mechanism too, or mark/prevent input on the overlay.

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A photograph opens out of a pill-shaped gap in the headline as you scroll,
the words part, and a caption reads in word by word.

- Composable parts: Media, Headline, Lead, Opening, Trail, Caption, Text,
  Action, Hint
- One scroll value drives everything through two CSS variables; scrolling
  never re-renders React
- Opening measured from layout, corrected for scaled ancestors, re-measured
  on resize, rewrap, and font load
- Page-scroll or contained (viewportHeight) mode; contained mode is
  keyboard scrollable
- Container-query layouts for narrow and short stages
- Static reduced-motion layout from the same tree
- Styles in @layer components so Tailwind classes on parts override them

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two page-scroll chapters (night, then first light) with a route-details
band between them. Registered in the Scroll demo group with recipe notes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Component doc, Scroll category recent changes, October 2026 release notes,
changelog overview, and sidebar entry.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Merge consumer refs with internal refs on Root, Opening, and Action, so a
  passed ref no longer breaks contained scrolling, measurement, or the action
- Headline owns its id so the section's aria-labelledby always resolves
- Disable the hint loop under prefers-reduced-motion before hydration
- Demo uses next/link for its internal docs link

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The stat cells were inset boxes, so values sat ~32px in from the headline.
Values now start flush with it; rules sit only between items (vertical side
by side, horizontal when stacked).

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Layout, color, spacing, type, the narrow-stage container query, the
reduced-motion layout, and the action styles now live in Tailwind classes on
each part, per the repo convention. cn() lets a className on any part
override them, replacing the earlier @layer workaround.

aperture-reveal.css keeps only what Tailwind can't express cleanly: the
per-frame calc() values driven by --e and --q, the hint's pseudo-element
animation, the container height query, and releasing those values for
reduced motion (380 -> 170 lines, mostly comments and calc).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wheel input is interpolated so scroll-linked animations move continuously
instead of in wheel-notch steps. Touch and keyboard keep native scrolling.

- Lenis advances on Motion's frame loop, one clock for scroll and animation
- Nested scrollers (sidebar, code blocks, menus, contained previews) keep
  native scrolling
- Stops while a Radix dialog or menu locks body scroll
- Honors prefers-reduced-motion (Lenis default)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- --ease-out, --ease-in, --ease-in-out redefined with stronger, longer
  settles; new ease-glide, ease-snap, ease-overshoot
- Default transition curve and duration now use the house ease-out at 200ms,
  so plain transition classes pick it up
- lib/motion.ts mirrors the tokens for Motion
- Fix: custom curves used the Tailwind v3 --transition-timing-function-*
  namespace, so ease-slow (5 components) silently fell back to the default
  and section-reveal's animation declaration was invalid
- Align --ease-minor-spring with the value the docs tell readers to use

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Route same-page hash links through Lenis (anchors: true) so an in-flight
  wheel glide can't pull the page back from the target heading; targets still
  honor scroll-margin like a native jump
- Stop Lenis for useLockBody's inline overflow/position lock as well as
  Radix's data-scroll-locked, so wheel input can't move the page underneath

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Around line 355-363: Initialize the element’s data-ready attribute from the
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Comment on lines +355 to +363
useMotionValueEvent(read, "change", (value) => {
ref.current?.toggleAttribute("data-ready", value > ACTION_READY);
});

const handleFocus = (event: FocusEvent<HTMLDivElement>) => {
onFocus?.(event);
if (!isStatic && read.get() < ACTION_READY) {
trackRef.current?.scrollIntoView({ block: "end" });
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Seed data-ready from the current read value on mount.

useMotionValueEvent runs only on change. If the page loads or restores with scroll already past ACTION_READY (for example, after a back navigation), data-ready is not set until the next scroll event. Until then the action has pointer-events-none, so a click on the visible link does nothing.

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--- "a/animata/scroll/aperture-reveal.tsx"
+++ "b/animata/scroll/aperture-reveal.tsx"
@@ -352,9 +352,12 @@
   const ref = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
   const setRef = useMemo(() => mergeRefs(ref, forwardedRef), [forwardedRef]);
 
   useMotionValueEvent(read, "change", (value) => {
     ref.current?.toggleAttribute("data-ready", value > ACTION_READY);
   });
+  useLayoutEffect(() => {
+    ref.current?.toggleAttribute("data-ready", read.get() > ACTION_READY);
+  }, [read]);
 
   const handleFocus = (event: FocusEvent<HTMLDivElement>) => {
     onFocus?.(event);
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useMotionValueEvent(read, "change", (value) => {
ref.current?.toggleAttribute("data-ready", value > ACTION_READY);
});
const handleFocus = (event: FocusEvent<HTMLDivElement>) => {
onFocus?.(event);
if (!isStatic && read.get() < ACTION_READY) {
trackRef.current?.scrollIntoView({ block: "end" });
}
useMotionValueEvent(read, "change", (value) => {
ref.current?.toggleAttribute("data-ready", value > ACTION_READY);
});
useLayoutEffect(() => {
ref.current?.toggleAttribute("data-ready", read.get() > ACTION_READY);
}, [read]);
const handleFocus = (event: FocusEvent<HTMLDivElement>) => {
onFocus?.(event);
if (!isStatic && read.get() < ACTION_READY) {
trackRef.current?.scrollIntoView({ block: "end" });
}
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Review comment at @animata/scroll/aperture-reveal.tsx around lines 355 - 363:
Initialize the element’s data-ready attribute from the current read value on
mount; useMotionValueEvent only updates it after changes, leaving restored
scroll positions unhandled. Add a mount-time layout effect that checks
read.get() against ACTION_READY and sets the attribute, while preserving the
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