How to Create Animated Login and Register Forms Using React, Vite, and Tailwind CSS

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create an animated login and register form using React, Vite, and Tailwind CSS. This project will demonstrate how to build a sleek and professional-looking user interface for your login and register pages.

Step 1: Setting up your project
First, make sure you have Node.js installed on your machine. You can download it from the official Node.js website. Once you have Node.js installed, open up your terminal and run the following commands to create a new React project using Vite:

npx create-react-app my-animated-form
cd my-animated-form
npm install @vitejs/plugin-react-refresh

Step 2: Installing Tailwind CSS
Next, we will install Tailwind CSS to style our components. Run the following command in your terminal:

npm install tailwindcss@latest postcss@latest autoprefixer@latest

After installing Tailwind CSS, create a new tailwind.config.js file in the root of your project with the following content:

module.exports = {
  mode: 'jit',
  purge: ['./src/**/*.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}', './index.html'],
  darkMode: false,
  theme: {
    extend: {},
  },
  variants: {
    extend: {},
  },
  plugins: [],
}

Then, create a new postcss.config.js file in the root of your project with the following content:

module.exports = {
  plugins: {
    tailwindcss: {},
    autoprefixer: {},
  },
}

Step 3: Creating the animated form
Now, let’s start creating our animated login and register form components. Create a new LoginForm.js file in the src directory with the following code:

import React from 'react';

const LoginForm = () => {
  return (
    <div className="flex justify-center items-center h-screen">
      <div className="bg-white p-10 rounded-md shadow-md">
        <h2 className="text-2xl font-bold mb-4">Login</h2>
        <form className="flex flex-col space-y-4">
          <input type="email" placeholder="Email" className="border p-2 rounded-md" />
          <input type="password" placeholder="Password" className="border p-2 rounded-md" />
          <button className="bg-blue-500 text-white py-2 rounded-md hover:bg-blue-600">Login</button>
        </form>
      </div>
    </div>
  );
}

export default LoginForm;

Create a similar file for the register form called RegisterForm.js.

Step 4: Styling the forms
Add the following Tailwind CSS classes to the forms to style them:

<div className="bg-white p-10 rounded-md shadow-md animate-fade-in">

<button className="bg-blue-500 text-white py-2 rounded-md hover:bg-blue-600 transition duration-200">Register</button>

Step 5: Adding animations
To make our forms more interactive, we can add animations using the framer-motion library. Install the library by running the following command in your terminal:

npm install framer-motion

Then, import the library in your LoginForm.js and RegisterForm.js files:

import { motion } from 'framer-motion';

Wrap the form elements with a motion.div component and add animation properties to it:

<motion.div
  initial={{ opacity: 0, y: -50 }}
  animate={{ opacity: 1, y: 0 }}
  transition={{ duration: 0.5 }}>
  {/* Form content */}
</motion.div>

Step 6: Running your project
Finally, start your development server by running the following command in your terminal:

npm start

Once your server is up and running, you can navigate to http://localhost:3000 in your browser to see your animated login and register forms in action.

Congratulations! You have successfully created an animated login and register form using React, Vite, and Tailwind CSS. Feel free to customize the forms further to fit your project’s design requirements. Happy coding!