This chapter introduces advanced customization techniques, such as how to build custom attributes and structural directives, how to associate style states to HTML elements, and how to animate their transitions. The reader is required to practice all the concepts learned by modifying and adding animations to previously designed components. Custom directives are an essential part of professional web applications, since, like components, they factor out common behaviors, used throughout the whole application, into unique chunks of code. Animations are useful mainly in the design of appealing public websites, but they also ensure a more natural and pleasant interaction in business intranet applications.
In this chapter, you will learn the following topics:
- Defining attribute directives
- Using and defining structural directives
- Defining and using Angular animations...