How can I use ng-animate with ui-view rather than

Question

I am using angular-ui-router with angularJS v1.2 and would like to implement custom page transitions.
How can I use ng-animate with ui-view (from angular-ui-router) rather than ng-view (which would be the standard way)? See Remastered Animation in AngularJS 1.2 for reference on ng-view.

EDIT: I have tried two different versions of angular: v1.2.0-rc.2 and v1.2.0-rc.3 as suggested in the comments, but neither seems to do the trick. I guess I might be doing something wrong?

Here is the HTML:

<div ui-view class="slide"></div>

and the CSS:

.slide {
    width:1024px;
    height:768px;
}
.slide.ng-enter,
.slide.ng-leave {
    -webkit-transition:0.5s linear all;
    -moz-transition:0.5s linear all;
    -o-transition:0.5s linear all;
    transition:0.5s linear all;
    border: 1px solid blue;
}

.slide.ng-enter.ng-enter-active {
    border: 1px solid red;
}

I added a JSfiddle of the previously mentioned example. It would be nice to expand this example to cover ng-view and ui-view, but I'm not sure how to get ng/ui-view and the partials into JSfiddle, though.

Answer 1

I just posted a tutorial with a working demo for using ngAnimate (1.4.8) with UI Router.

It shows a couple of different view animations, a fade in transition on the main view and a slide in/out transition on a nested view.

Here's a snippet from the LESS file for the fade in transition on the main view:

main {
    /* start 'enter' transition */
    &.ng-enter {
        /* transition on enter for .5s */
        transition: .5s;

        /* start with opacity 0 (invisible) */
        opacity: 0;
    }

    /* end 'enter' transition */
    &.ng-enter-active {
        /* end with opacity 1 (fade in) */
        opacity: 1;
    }
}

Answer 2

Using AngularMotion https://github.com/mgcrea/angular-motion then just add this to your css...

div[ng-view].ng-leave-active {
    display: none !important;
}

Add your animation to the class (am-fade in my case) of your ng-view div

Answer 3

Over the weekend, I created two plunks demonstrating view animations for both ui-view and ng-view

ui-view: http://plnkr.co/edit/jpebBk?p=preview

ng-view: http://plnkr.co/edit/LQhVYU?p=preview

angular-ui-router 0.2.8 came with fixes to major view animation bugs

Answer 4

Looks like this is fixed with UI Router 0.2.8. I'm using AngularJS v1.2.7.

For an example, just add the "slide" class to your ui-view

<div ui-view class="slide">

And use the following css for your animation.

.slide {
    -webkit-transition: -webkit-transform .7s ease-in-out;
    -moz-transition: -moz-transform .7s ease-in-out;
    -o-transition: -o-transform .7s ease-in-out;
    transition: transform .7s ease-in-out;
    -webkit-transform: translateX(0);
    transform: translateX(0);
}

.slide.ng-enter {
    -webkit-transform: translateX(-100%);
    transform: translateX(-100%);
}

.slide.ng-enter.ng-enter-active, .slide.ng-leave {
    position: absolute;
    -webkit-transform: translateX(0);
    transform: translateX(0);
}

.slide.ng-leave.ng-leave-active {
    -webkit-transform: translateX(100%);
    transform: translateX(100%);
}

Additionally, some animations seemed to have some weird behavior because of $uiViewScroll. I worked around it by adding autoscroll="false" to my ui-view element.

Answer 5

The bug is now closed and they've added an entry over at the ui-router Wiki. It also includes a demo Plunkr. I will copy the code example here, just in case the URL would become outdated.

HTML:

<div class="row">
   <div class="span12 ui-view-container">
      <div class="well" ui-view></div>        
   </div>
</div> 

CSS:

/* Have to set height explicity on ui-view 
to prevent collapsing during animation*/
.well[ui-view]{
 height: 65px; 
}

.ui-view-container {
  position: relative;
}

[ui-view].ng-enter, [ui-view].ng-leave {
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
  -webkit-transition:all .5s ease-in-out;
    -moz-transition:all .5s ease-in-out;
    -o-transition:all .5s ease-in-out;
    transition:all .5s ease-in-out;
}

[ui-view].ng-enter {
  opacity: 0;
  -webkit-transform:scale3d(0.5, 0.5, 0.5);
  -moz-transform:scale3d(0.5, 0.5, 0.5);
  transform:scale3d(0.5, 0.5, 0.5);
}

[ui-view].ng-enter-active {
  opacity: 1;
  -webkit-transform:scale3d(1, 1, 1);
  -moz-transform:scale3d(1, 1, 1);
  transform:scale3d(1, 1, 1);
}

[ui-view].ng-leave {
  opacity: 1; 
  -webkit-transform:translate3d(0, 0, 0);
  -moz-transform:translate3d(0, 0, 0);
  transform:translate3d(0, 0, 0);
}

[ui-view].ng-leave-active {
  opacity: 0;
  -webkit-transform:translate3d(100px, 0, 0);
  -moz-transform:translate3d(100px, 0, 0);
  transform:translate3d(100px, 0, 0);
}

Answer 6

Like someone said in the post. there is a angular 1.2 branch of the router that has patches that make it work. I know for a fact that using Angular 1.2.6 ng-animate 1.2.6 and my special ui-router build of 0.2.0 beta branch 1.2 works... fading ui-views.. in and out.

the problem is that you need to "build" the beta branch angular router.. you can't just go download a tarball from git and it works.. you have to download it. then BUILD it. then you will have a custom ui-router. look at your ui-router header in javascript. mine says this..

/**
 * State-based routing for AngularJS
 * @version v0.2.0-dev-2013-10-05
 * @link http://angular-ui.github.com/
 * @license MIT License, http://www.opensource.org/licenses/MIT
 */

does your's say version 0.2.0-dev-2013-10-05? that date is the date i compiled mine. so your date should be relevant to yours.. if you don't see that in your header of your javascript then you are just using the same 0.2.0 version as the master, you aren't using anything special to make 1.2 animations work...

here is a pastbin of the compiled ui-router that works with 1.2 try it out. BOOM!

0.2.0 Angular-ui-router custom build