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I'm extremely excited about this. I have been playing with stock Web Components for the last year and a half or so. Polymer I have been hot and cold for. I pref

• tdumitrescu 11y ago
  Agreed. While Polymer is a neat project, I honestly think it's kind of hurt the adoption of web components. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's tried to learn about web components according to the standards, only to run into a ton of Polymer stuff on the web and get turned off by the heavy, opinionated, framework-like nature of it. The underlying web components APIs are much less off-putting to me, once you can dredge them up through the SEO swamp.
  • marknutter 11y ago
    Polymer is really not that opinionated. All they do is provide sugar that you would eventually write yourself after you get comfortable with web components and start to notice where the boilerplate lives.