I have found that the best place is in NgAfterViewChecked(). I tried to execute code that would scroll to an ng-accordion panel when the page was loaded. I tried putting the code in NgAfterViewInit() but it did not work there (NPE). The problem was that the element had not been rendered yet. There is a problem with putting it in NgAfterViewChecked(). NgAfterViewChecked() is called several times as the page is rendered. Some calls are made before the element is rendered. This means a check for null may be required to guard the code from NPE. I am using Angular 8.