angular-animate

What is angular-animate?

The angular-animate package is an AngularJS module that provides support for JavaScript, CSS3 transition, and CSS3 keyframe animation hooks within your AngularJS applications. It allows you to create smooth, complex animations for various elements and states in your application.

What are angular-animate's main functionalities?

CSS-based animations

This feature allows you to define CSS classes for entering and leaving animations. The .ng-enter and .ng-leave classes are used to define the starting state of the animation, while the .ng-enter-active and .ng-leave-active classes define the end state.

/* CSS code */
.fade.ng-enter {
  transition: 0.5s linear all;
  opacity: 0;
}
.fade.ng-enter-active {
  opacity: 1;
}
.fade.ng-leave {
  transition: 0.5s linear all;
  opacity: 1;
}
.fade.ng-leave-active {
  opacity: 0;
}

JavaScript-based animations

This feature allows you to define animations using JavaScript. You can create custom animations for entering and leaving elements by manipulating their CSS properties and using jQuery's animate function.

// JavaScript code
angular.module('myApp', ['ngAnimate'])
  .animation('.slide', function() {
    return {
      enter: function(element, done) {
        element.css({
          position: 'relative',
          left: '-10px',
          opacity: 0
        });
        element.animate({
          left: '0px',
          opacity: 1
        }, 1000, done);
      },
      leave: function(element, done) {
        element.css({
          position: 'relative',
          left: '0px',
          opacity: 1
        });
        element.animate({
          left: '-10px',
          opacity: 0
        }, 1000, done);
      }
    };
  });

ngAnimate directive

The ngAnimate directive can be used to apply animations to elements within an AngularJS application. In this example, the .fade class is applied to each item in the ng-repeat directive, and the corresponding CSS animations are triggered when items are added or removed.

<div ng-app="myApp" ng-controller="myCtrl">
  <div ng-repeat="item in items" class="fade">
    {{item}}
  </div>
</div>

<script>
angular.module('myApp', ['ngAnimate'])
  .controller('myCtrl', function($scope) {
    $scope.items = ['Item 1', 'Item 2', 'Item 3'];
  });
</script>

Other packages similar to angular-animate

ng2-animate

ng2-animate is an Angular (2+) module that provides a set of reusable animations for Angular applications. It offers a variety of pre-built animations that can be easily applied to elements, making it simpler to add animations without writing custom CSS or JavaScript. Compared to angular-animate, ng2-animate is designed for newer versions of Angular and provides a more modern approach to animations.

react-transition-group

react-transition-group is a popular library for managing animations in React applications. It provides components like Transition, CSSTransition, and TransitionGroup to handle the entering and exiting of elements with animations. While it serves a similar purpose to angular-animate, it is specifically designed for React and offers a different API and set of features tailored to React's component-based architecture.

animejs

animejs is a lightweight JavaScript animation library that works with any JavaScript framework, including AngularJS. It provides a powerful and flexible API for creating complex animations with minimal code. Unlike angular-animate, which is tightly integrated with AngularJS, animejs is a general-purpose animation library that can be used across different frameworks and projects.

README

packaged angular-animate

This repo is for distribution on npm and bower. The source for this module is in the main AngularJS repo. Please file issues and pull requests against that repo.

Install

You can install this package either with npm or with bower.

npm

npm install angular-animate

Then add ngAnimate as a dependency for your app:

angular.module('myApp', [require('angular-animate')]);

bower

bower install angular-animate

Then add a <script> to your index.html:

<script src="/bower_components/angular-animate/angular-animate.js"></script>

Then add ngAnimate as a dependency for your app:

angular.module('myApp', ['ngAnimate']);

Documentation

Documentation is available on the AngularJS docs site.

License

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2010-2015 Google, Inc. http://angularjs.org

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Changelog

1.4.10 benignant-oscillation (2016-03-16)

Bug Fixes

• core: only call console.log when window.console exists (beb00e44, #14006, #14007, #14047)
• $animateCss: cancel fallback timeout when animation ends normally (a60bbc12, #13787)
• $compile:
  • allow directives to have decorators (77cdc37c)
  • properly denormalize templates when only one of the start/end symbols is different (2d44a681, #13848)
  • handle boolean attributes in @ bindings (2ffbfb0a, #13767, #13769)
• $parse:
  • prevent assignment on constructor properties (f47e2180, #13417)
  • preserve expensive checks when running $eval inside an expression (96d62cc0)
  • copy inputs for expressions with expensive checks (0b7fff30)
• $rootScope: set no context when calling helper functions for $watch (ab5c7698)
• $route: allow preventing a route reload (4bc30314, #9824, #13894)
• $routeProvider: properly handle optional eager path named groups (6a4403a1, #14011)
• copy: add support for copying Blob objects (863a4232, #9669, #14064)
• dateFilter: follow the CLDR on pattern escape sequences (f476060d, #12839)
• dateFilter, input: fix Date parsing in IE/Edge when timezone offset contains : (571afd65, #13880, #13887)
• input: re-validate when partially editing date-family inputs (02929f82, #12207, #13886)
• select: handle corner case of adding options via a custom directive (df6e7315, #13874, #13878)
• ngOptions: always set the 'selected' attribute for selected options (f87e8288, #14115)
• ngAnimate: properly cancel previously running class-based animations (3b27dd37, #10156, #13822)
• ngAnimateChildren: make it compatible with ngIf (dc158e7e, #13865, #13876)
• ngMockE2E: pass responseType to $delegate when using passThrough (947cb4d1, #5415, #5783)

Features

• $locale: Include original locale ID in $locale (e69f3550, #13390)
• ngAnimate: provide ng-[event]-prepare class for structural animations (796f7ab4)

Performance Improvements

• $compile: avoid needless overhead when wrapping text nodes (946d9ae9)
• ngRepeat: avoid duplicate jqLite wrappers (d04c38c4)
• ngAnimate:
  • avoid jqLite/jQuery for upward DOM traversal (ab95ba65)
  • avoid $.fn.data overhead with jQuery (86416bcb)

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