Directive components in ngAnimate

ngAnimateChildren allows you to specify that children of this element should animate even if any of the children's parents are currently animating. By default, when an element has an active enter, leave, or move (structural) animation, child elements that also have an active structural animation are not animated.

ngAnimateSwap is a animation-oriented directive that allows for the container to be removed and entered in whenever the associated expression changes. A common usecase for this directive is a rotating banner component which contains one image being present at a time. When the active image changes then the old image will perform a leave animation and the new element will be inserted via an enter animation.