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Is "Greyspots" just Polymer? There seems to be no real info on the site about it?

• cdcarter 11y ago
  The code in github (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/greyspots/envelope/master/production/web_root/js/greyspots.js https://raw.githubusercontent.com/greyspots/envelope/master/...) has the Polymer copyright notice at the top, but other bits appear to be custom.
  • justintocci 11y ago
    That license is on X-tags. We use X-tags as a shim to get Web Components to work on many browsers. We use no code from the Polymer project. At the time we were evaluating we decided to go straight web components with X-Tags as a shim. I haven't kept up with Polymer but I don't think it offers database integration so its really not comparable to Greyspots in any way. Different goals entirely.
    • cdcarter 11y ago
      Thanks for clarification!
• michaeltocci 11y ago
  No, our custom elements does sound similar to Polymer but there are two main differences: we don't use ShadowDOM (polymer does) and our elements are for creating Postgres backed web apps. Greyspots has two parts: the front end and the Envelope Server. The front end is comprised of custom HTML tags and a JS library (We use X-tags to implement custom tags). The Envelope Server is a middleware replacement that exposes a fixed API from the front end to a Postgres database.
  • lucideer 11y ago
    Ah I was more thinking Greyspots referred exclusively to the front end JS library, not both sides. Cheers for the clarification.