Animate

Animate is an Angular package providing a directive-like component designed to animate its transcluded content. The animation can be selected among a series of attention seekers, entrances and exists inspired by the famous Animate.css. The main purpose of the package, however, is to trigger the selected animation when the element is scrolling into the view.

Usage example

Start by adding the wmAnimate directive to the element you want to animate. The aos flag is then used to enable the "Animate On Scroll" triggering mechanism:

<section wmAnimate="landing" aos> 
  My animated content goes here
</section>

Supported animations

Animations are grouped in three catetgories: Attention seekers, Entrances and Exists.

Attention seekers

Attention seekers animate starting and ending with the original element's style. Possible values are:

beat, bounce, flip, headShake, heartBeat, jello, pulse, rubberBand, shake, swing, tada, wobble.

Entrances

Entrances start with opacity level set to '0' (invisible) and animate ending with the original element's style. Possible entrance values are:

bumpIn, bounceIn, bounceInDown, bounceInLeft, bounceInUp, bounceInRight, fadeIn, fadeInRight, fadeInLeft, fadeInUp, fadeInDown, flipInX, flipInY, jackInTheBox, landing, rollIn, zoomIn, zoomInDown, zoomInLeft, zoomInUp, zoomInRight.

Exists

Exits start from the original element's style ending with the opacity level set to '0' (invisible). Possible exit values are:

bounceOut, bounceOutDown, bounceOutUp, bounceOutRight, bounceOutLeft, fadeOut, fadeOutRight, fadeOutLeft, fadeOutDown, fadeOutUp, hinge, rollOut, zoomOut, zoomOutDown, zoomOutRight, zoomOutUp, zoomOutLeft.

Trigger

The animation will trigger as soon as the component renders if not specified otherwise.

Replay

The animation can be triggered again using the replay input. Every change in this input value will trigger the animation again provided the value can be coerced into a truthful boolean. Use the paused flag to prevevnt the animation from triggering at first in order to get the full control about when the triggering will happen.

Animate On Scroll

Setting the aos flag enables the "Animate On Scroll" mechanism with a default threshold of 0.5, so, the animation triggers as soon as the 50% of the element area intersects the viewport area. The triggering threshold can be customized setting the aos input to a different numeric value from 0 (escluded) up to 1 (included). Setting aos=0 disables the trigger.

When the element scrolls out completely, the trigger resets, so, the animation will trigger as soon as the element enters the visible portion of the viewport again. Use the once flag to prevent the trigger to reset for the animation to run just once.

Timing

By default every animation applies the optimal timing. However, timing can be overridden with the speed input. Possible values are:

• slower: running the animation with a 3s timing
• slow: running the animation with a 2s timing
• normal: running the animation with a 1s timing
• fast : running the animation with a 500ms timing
• faster: running the animation with a 300ms timing

Additionally, the animation can be delayed using delay input. The input accepts both a string describing the delay such as '1s' or '250ms' or a number that will be considered a delay expressed in ms.

Viewport

When aos is enabled each animated element's area is checked against the viewport area to evaluate its visibility ratio and trigger the animation accordingly.

The triggering area can optionally be adjusted, so, to shrink (or expand) the effective area by left, top, right and bottom margins:

<div class="container" wmAnimateView top="64">

  <section wmAnimate="landing" aos> 
    My animated content goes here
  </section>
  ...
</div>

By using the wmAnimateView directive on a parent container in the example above, the effective triggering area has been reduced by a 64 pixels offset from the top of the viewport.

Alternatively, by setting the useElement flag, the container's client bounding box will be used as the triggering area instead of the viewport:

<div class="container" wmAnimateView useElement top="64">

  <section wmAnimate="landing" aos> 
    My animated content goes here
  </section>
  ...
</div>

The customizations above will affect the container's children elements only, so, different triggering areas can be used for different containers.