Chapter 10: Giving Motion to Components with Animations
Nowadays, animations are one of the cornerstones of modern user experience design. Far from just representing visual eye candy to beautify the UI, they have become an essential part of the visual narrative. Animations pave the way to convey messages in a non-intrusive way, becoming a powerful tool for informing the user about the underlying processes and events that happen while they interact with an application, thus enhancing the application's user experience. Animations are language-agnostic, not necessarily bound to a single device or environment (web, desktop, or mobile). In other words, animations are here to stay, and Angular has a strong commitment to this aspect of modern visual development.
With all modern browsers embracing the newest features of CSS for animation handling, Angular offers support for implementing imperative animation scripting through an incredibly simple but powerful API. In this chapter, we...