Gain insights into creating beautiful, performant animations in Angular. Delve into CSS transitions, Web Animations API, and Angular animations, while exploring performance and debugging techniques.

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Animations play a crucial role in an application’s user experience (UX). A set of well-designed animations can make an application feel fast, polished, and professional. However, creating animations can be a daunting task that involves knowing what is available and how to choose the right approach for each task.

You will start with the easiest methods and move on to more advanced animation methods as you make your way through this course. You’ll start with general animation techniques, covering CSS transitions, animations, and the Web Animations API, followed by Angular animations and integrating external animation libraries. Lastly, you’ll finish with a deep dive into animation performance and debugging.

This course will provide you with information and advice to help you create beautiful and performant animations in Angular applications. By the end of the course, you will be able to create performant animations and choose the right tools to create them effectively.

Animations in Angular

# Scenario

In this lesson, we’ll create a button that expands when hovered using CSS transitions. This animation will be made exclusively using CSS, without using any Angular-specific features.

If you’re wondering why this is included in an Angular animation course, it’s because animations in Angular aren’t limited to using Angular-specific features. Having said that, this lesson will be using an Angular application to give you an end-to-end example of adding CSS transitions in an Angular context.

> **Note:** We’ll create the animation in this lesson within a single component in the Angular application. We’ll use `app.component.html`, `app.component.scss`, and `app.component.ts` for the template, stylesheet, and any TypeScript-related logic, respectively.

# Step 1: Create a button with base styling

Let’s start with creating the button in our template (`app.component.html`) with a class called `my-button`.

Learn how to use CSS transitions in an Angular application to create a button hover animation.

Before We Start

CSS Transitions

CSS Animations

Web Animations API (WAAPI)

Angular Animations

Third-party Animation Libraries

Appendix

Conclusion

Example: Button Hover Animation

Scenario