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# SpringValue

The very driving force of `react-spring`. It's a class that can be used to create a single
value that can be animated.

## Usage

Basic usage, the `SpringValue` class you initialise can be used just like our [`imperative api`](/docs/concepts/imperative-api).
Meanwhile you pass the `SpringValue` to your `animated` component. Any type is valid, but only certain types are actually animated.
Types that cannot be animated are basically immediate: true animations. Such types include:
a `boolean`, a display string like `"none"`, etc.

```tsx
import { Component, createRef } from 'react'
import { SpringValue, animated } from '@react-spring/web'

class AnimatedComponent extends Component {
  isShowing = createRef(false)
  springOpacity = new SpringValue(0)

  toggle = () => {
    this.springOpacity.start(isShowing ? 0 : 1)

    this.isShowing = !this.isShowing
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <>
        <button onClick={this.toggle}>click</button>
        <animated.div style={{ opacity: this.springOpacity }}>
          I will fade
        </animated.div>
      </>
    )
  }
}
```

## Properties

import { TablesConfiguration } from '../components/Tables/TablesConfig'
import { SPRINGVALUE_PROPERTIES_DATA } from '../data/fixtures'

<TablesConfiguration data={SPRINGVALUE_PROPERTIES_DATA} />

## Methods

### Advance

Advance the current animation by a number of milliseconds.

```ts
advance(dt: number): void;
```

### Finish

Skip to the end of the current animation.

```ts
finish(): this;
```

### Pause

Freeze the active animation in time, as well as any updates merged before `resume` is called.

```ts
pause(): void;
```

### Reset

Restart the animation.

```ts
reset(): void;
```

### Resume

Resume the animation if paused.

```ts
resume(): void;
```

### Set

Set the current value, while stopping the current animation.

```ts
set(value: T | FluidValue<T>): this;
```

### Start

Update this value's animation using the queue of pending props, and unpause the current
animation (if one is frozen). When arguments are passed, a new animation is created, and
the queued animations are left alone.

```ts
start(): AsyncResult<this>;
start(props: SpringUpdate<T>): AsyncResult<this>;
start(to: T, props?: SpringProps<T>): AsyncResult<this>;
```

### Stop

Stop the current animation, and cancel any delayed updates. Pass `true` to call `onRest`
with `cancelled: true`.

```ts
stop(cancel?: boolean): this
```

### Update

Push props into the pending queue.

```ts
update(props: SpringUpdate<T>): this;
```

## TS Glossary

- [`Animation`](/docs/typescript#animation)
- [`SpringUpdate`](/docs/typescript#springupdate)