'Found the synthetic property @panelState. Please include either "BrowserAnimationsModule" or "NoopAnimationsModule" in your application.'

Make sure the @angular/animations package is installed (e.g. by running npm install @angular/animations). Then, in your app.module.ts

import { BrowserAnimationsModule } from '@angular/platform-browser/animations';

@NgModule({
  ...,
  imports: [
    ...,
    BrowserAnimationsModule
  ],
  ...
})

This error message is often misleading.

You may have forgotten to import the BrowserAnimationsModule. But that was not my problem. I was importing BrowserAnimationsModule in the root AppModule, as everyone should do.

The problem was something completely unrelated to the module. I was animating an*ngIf in the component template but I had forgotten to mention it in the @Component.animations for the component class.

@Component({
  selector: '...',
  templateUrl: './...',
  animations: [myNgIfAnimation] // <-- Don't forget!
})

If you use an animation in a template, you also must list that animation in the component's animations metadata ... every time.

I ran into similar issues, when I tried to use the BrowserAnimationsModule. Following steps solved my problem:

Delete the node_modules dir Clear your package cache using npm cache clean Run one of these two commands listed here to update your existing packages

If you experience a 404 errors like

http://.../node_modules/@angular/platform-browser/bundles/platform-browser.umd.js/animations

add following entries to map in your system.config.js:

'@angular/animations': 'node_modules/@angular/animations/bundles/animations.umd.min.js',
'@angular/animations/browser':'node_modules/@angular/animations/bundles/animations-browser.umd.js',
'@angular/platform-browser/animations': 'node_modules/@angular/platform-browser/bundles/platform-browser-animations.umd.js'

naveedahmed1 provided the solution on this github issue.

For me, I missed this statement in @Component decorator: animations: [yourAnimation]

Once I added this statement, errors gone. (Angular 6.x)

All I had to do was to install this

npm install @angular/animations@latest --save  

and then import

import { BrowserAnimationsModule } from '@angular/platform-browser/animations'; 

into your app.module.ts file.

After installing an animation module then you create an animation file inside your app folder.

router.animation.ts

import { animate, state, style, transition, trigger } from '@angular/animations';
    export function routerTransition() {
        return slideToTop();
    }

    export function slideToRight() {
        return trigger('routerTransition', [
            state('void', style({})),
            state('*', style({})),
            transition(':enter', [
                style({ transform: 'translateX(-100%)' }),
                animate('0.5s ease-in-out', style({ transform: 'translateX(0%)' }))
            ]),
            transition(':leave', [
                style({ transform: 'translateX(0%)' }),
                animate('0.5s ease-in-out', style({ transform: 'translateX(100%)' }))
            ])
        ]);
    }

    export function slideToLeft() {
        return trigger('routerTransition', [
            state('void', style({})),
            state('*', style({})),
            transition(':enter', [
                style({ transform: 'translateX(100%)' }),
                animate('0.5s ease-in-out', style({ transform: 'translateX(0%)' }))
            ]),
            transition(':leave', [
                style({ transform: 'translateX(0%)' }),
                animate('0.5s ease-in-out', style({ transform: 'translateX(-100%)' }))
            ])
        ]);
    }

    export function slideToBottom() {
        return trigger('routerTransition', [
            state('void', style({})),
            state('*', style({})),
            transition(':enter', [
                style({ transform: 'translateY(-100%)' }),
                animate('0.5s ease-in-out', style({ transform: 'translateY(0%)' }))
            ]),
            transition(':leave', [
                style({ transform: 'translateY(0%)' }),
                animate('0.5s ease-in-out', style({ transform: 'translateY(100%)' }))
            ])
        ]);
    }

    export function slideToTop() {
        return trigger('routerTransition', [
            state('void', style({})),
            state('*', style({})),
            transition(':enter', [
                style({ transform: 'translateY(100%)' }),
                animate('0.5s ease-in-out', style({ transform: 'translateY(0%)' }))
            ]),
            transition(':leave', [
                style({ transform: 'translateY(0%)' }),
                animate('0.5s ease-in-out', style({ transform: 'translateY(-100%)' }))
            ])
        ]);
    }

Then you import this animation file to your any component.

In your component.ts file

import { routerTransition } from '../../router.animations';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-test',
  templateUrl: './test.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./test.component.scss'],
  animations: [routerTransition()]
})

Don't forget to import animation in your app.module.ts

import { BrowserAnimationsModule } from '@angular/platform-browser/animations';

My problem was that my @angular/platform-browser was on version 2.3.1

npm install @angular/platform-browser@latest --save

Upgrading to 4.4.6 did the trick and added /animations folder under node_modules/@angular/platform-browser

The animation should be applied on the specific component.

EX : Using animation directive in other component and provided in another.

CompA --- @Component ({

animations : [animation] }) CompA --- @Component ({

animations : [animation] <=== this should be provided in used component })

For me was because I put the animation name inside square brackets.

<div [@animation]></div>

But after I removed the bracket all worked fine (In Angular 9.0.1):

<div @animation></div>

I got below error :

Found the synthetic property @collapse. Please include either "BrowserAnimationsModule" or "NoopAnimationsModule" in your application.

I follow the accepted answer by Ploppy and it resolved my problem.

Here are the steps:

1.
    import { trigger, state, style, transition, animate } from '@angular/animations';
    Or 
    import { BrowserAnimationsModule } from '@angular/platform-browser/animations';

2. Define the same in the import array in the root module.

It will resolve the error. Happy coding!!

Try this

npm install @angular/animations@latest --save

import { BrowserAnimationsModule } from '@angular/platform-browser/animations';

this works for me.

--
import { BrowserAnimationsModule } from '@angular/platform-browser/animations';
---

@NgModule({
  declarations: [   --   ],
  imports: [BrowserAnimationsModule],
  providers: [],
  bootstrap: []
})

Simply add .. import { BrowserAnimationsModule } from '@angular/platform-browser/animations';

imports: [ .. BrowserAnimationsModule

],

in app.module.ts file.

make sure you have installed .. npm install @angular/animations@latest --save

Update for angularJS 4:

Error: (SystemJS) XHR error (404 Not Found) loading http://localhost:3000/node_modules/@angular/platform-browser/bundles/platform-browser.umd.js/animations

Solution:

**cli:** (command/terminal)
npm install @angular/animations@latest --save

**systemjs.config.js** (edit file)
'@angular/animations': 'npm:@angular/animations/bundles/animations.umd.js',
'@angular/animations/browser': 'npm:@angular/animations/bundles/animations-browser.umd.js',
'@angular/platform-browser/animations': 'npm:@angular/platform-browser/bundles/platform-browser-animations.umd.js',

**app.module.ts** (edit file)
import {BrowserAnimationsModule} from '@angular/platform-browser/animations';
@NgModule({
  imports:      [ BrowserModule,BrowserAnimationsModule ],
...