How can I animate *ngFor in Angular?

Question

I need to animate an ngFor list as it is populated and shown. Each element should have a transition, let's say something like this.

How can I do that?

Answer 1

It has a few issues because ngFor does a few redundant add/removes which cause items to be animated which shouldn't:

import {Component} from 'angular2/core';
import { Component, Directive, OnDestroy, Input } from 'angular2/core';

@Component({
    selector: 'my-app',
    template: `<div (click)="$event.preventDefault()">
        <button type="button" (click)="pushItem()">Push</button>
        <button type="button" (click)="removeItemLast()">Remove Last</button><br/>
        <button type="button" (click)="unshiftItem()">Unshift</button>
        <button type="button" (click)="removeItemFirst()">Remove First</button><br/>
        <ul>
          <li class="my-animation" *ngFor="#item of items">
            {{item.title}}
          </li>
        </ul>
      </div>`
})
export class AppComponent {
  private count:number = 1;
  public items: Array<any>;
  constructor() { 
    console.clear(); 
    this.items = [];
    this.items.push(this.newItem());
    this.items.push(this.newItem());
    }
    pushItem() {
        this.items.push(this.newItem());
    },
    removeItemLast() {
      if(this.items.length > 0) this.items.splice(this.items.length - 1, 1);
    },
    unshiftItem() {
        this.items.unshift(this.newItem());
    },
    removeItemFirst() {
      if(this.items.length > 0) this.items.splice(0, 1);
    },
    newItem() {
      return {title: 'Item' + this.count++};
    }

}

@keyframes MyAnimation {
  0% {
    padding-left: 100px;
  }
  100% {
    padding-left: 0px;
  } 
}

.my-animation {
  animation: MyAnimation 1s;
}

Plunker example (RC.x) from https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/7239 demonstrates the issue.

Update

This was fixed a long time ago

working Demo on stackblitz