Angular Animations

Angular animations are a way to add motion and visual effects to your application. Animations in Angular are implemented using the @angular/animations module, which provides a declarative API for defining animations and applying them to components.

To use animations in Angular, you will need to import the BrowserAnimationsModule into your application module, and include the animations metadata in your component's @Component decorator.

Here's an example of how you can define an animation in Angular:

import { trigger, state, style, animate, transition } from '@angular/animations'; 

export const myAnimation = trigger('myAnimation',[ state('inactive', 
                                style({ backgroundColor: '#eee', 
                                transform: 'scale(1)' })), 
                                state('active', 
                                style({ backgroundColor: '#cfd8dc', transform: 'scale(1.1)' })), 
                                transition('inactive => active', animate('100ms ease-in')), 
                                transition('active => inactive', animate('100ms ease-out')) 
                            ]);

In this example, we are using the trigger, state, style, animate, and transition functions to define an animation that changes the background color and scale of an element .

Certainly! Here's how you can use the animation in a component:

import { Component } from '@angular/core'; 
import { myAnimation } from './my-animation'; 

@Component({ 
    selector: 'my-component', 
    templateUrl: './my.component.html', 
    styleUrls: ['./my.component.css'], 
    animations: [myAnimation] 
}) 

export class MyComponent { 
    state = 'inactive'; 
    
    toggleState() { 
        this.state = (this.state === 'inactive') ? 'active' : 'inactive'; 
    } 
}

In this example, we are using the animations metadata to specify the myAnimation animation that we defined earlier. We are also using a component property, state, to control the state of the animation.

To apply the animation to an element in the component's template, you can use the @myAnimation directive:

<div @myAnimation="state"> This element will animate when the state changes. </div>

You can also use the animation binding to bind the state of the animation to a component property:

<div [@myAnimation]="state"> This element will animate when the state changes. </div>