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 grid of cards that will fade in and grow to its final size as it enters the DOM. This animation will be created using exclusively CSS keyframe animations without using any Angular-specific features. This is a great example of what we can achieve with pure CSS that is framework agnostic. In other words, you can use the same concept we learn in this section in other frameworks, such as Vue, React, Svelte, and so on.

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 the grid of cards

Let’s start with creating an array of strings with the name of the card that we can loop through in our template.


Learn how to combine CSS animations with Angular's features to create a smooth fading and scaling animation as elements are added to the DOM.

Before We Start

CSS Transitions

CSS Animations

Web Animations API (WAAPI)

Angular Animations

Third-party Animation Libraries

Appendix

Conclusion

Example: Card Fade and Scale Enter Animation

Scenario