Most Angular applications are built using good old HTML and CSS. But it just so happens that HTML is only one of the four main rendering pipelines made available on the web platform, the three other ones being SVG, the 2D Canvas, and the 3D WebGL Canvas.

These alternative rendering technologies can be very useful when you are building something highly visual. Icons, charts and other data visualizations, mapping apps, and games are all examples of things that can be difficult to build using ju...