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

Web Animations API, also known as WAAPI, is a native API for animation in JavaScript that provides a common language for browsers to interpret DOM elements’ animations.


The basic usage of WAAPI is similar to jQuery’s `animate` function. The `animate` function accepts two parameters to define its animations: a set of keyframes and the animation duration.

Let’s take a look at an example of how we can animate an element’s opacity from `0` to `1` using WAAPI in JavaScript.

var element = document.getElementById("myElement");
element.animate([{ opacity: 0 }, { opacity: 1 }], 1000);

We first get the element’s reference by using getElementById. Then, we use the element’s reference’s animate function and pass in an array of keyframes (`[{ opacity: 0 }, { opacity: 1 }]`) as its first parameter, followed by the duration in milliseconds (`1000`).

An introduction to Web Animations API and an overview of its usage and browser support.

Before We Start

CSS Transitions

CSS Animations

Web Animations API (WAAPI)

Angular Animations

Third-party Animation Libraries

Appendix

Conclusion

Introduction to Web Animations API