--- title: 3 Easy Ways to Add Animation to your Angular Applications description: Three approaches to adding animations in Angular apps are covered: CSS transitions and keyframes (using class binding), the Web Animations API (WAAPI) via... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/3-easy-ways-to-add-animation-to-your-angular-applications-pqee7i8y4 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 3 Easy Ways to Add Animation to your Angular Applications | daily.dev og:description: Three approaches to adding animations in Angular apps are covered: CSS transitions and keyframes (using class binding), the Web Animations API (WAAPI) via... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/3-easy-ways-to-add-animation-to-your-angular-applications-pqee7i8y4 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/pQEe7i8Y4.png og:image:alt: 3 Easy Ways to Add Animation to your Angular Applications og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 3 Easy Ways to Add Animation to your Angular Applications **[Playful Programming](https://daily.dev/sources/playfulprogramming)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Three approaches to adding animations in Angular apps are covered: CSS transitions and keyframes (using class binding), the Web Animations API (WAAPI) via Angular's ViewChild and nativeElement.animate(), and Angular's built-in @angular/animations module with BrowserAnimationsModule. Each method is illustrated with concise code examples for common use cases like expand, shake, and enter/leave fade animations. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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