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Or there is Google's Polymer framework. In my opinion, Polymer is better than React and Vue. I could never bring myself to use React because of its liense terms
by jondubois 9y ago
Or there is Google's Polymer framework. In my opinion, Polymer is better than React and Vue. I could never bring myself to use React because of its liense terms.
- kenning 9y agoUsing polymer as a JS frontend framework wasted about a year of work at my friend's company. They eventually switched to react for one project and an in-house react replacement for the other.
- boubiyeah 9y agogoogle is pretty bad at frontend frameworks from my experience :D Polymer is an experiment that should have stayed in that state.
- gramstrong 9y agoI'd argue that google is pretty strong when it comes to frameworks, and that most of their criticism comes from people who aren't looking for a framework, but rather a library (like React). And Polymer isn't even really either of those things, it's a polyfill for a native browser feature.
- boubiyeah 9y agoNo, a polyfill has to closely mirror an API. Polymer is inspired by web components but went its own way for several features.
- ergo14 9y agoPolymer is not a polyfill for web components - it is higher level library - something like "jquery for web components" - WC polyfill is separate project, in separate repo - you will need it with X-Tags, Svelte, SkateJS too.
- Zenbit_UX 9y agoI'm guessing you're hating on Angular? Why? I'm a huge fan of 1.x & polymer, but I'm curious to know why you think it is not worth using.
- nawitus 9y agoI've used Polymer in three production applications and they were successes.
- stemuk 9y agoTrue, what I really love about polymer is https://webcomponents.org https://webcomponents.org, basically a collection of webcomponents that can be used either individually or in combination without much setup. This creates great looking results pretty fast and also enables you to easily give back to the community by open-sourcing your own components. Last time I checked already 1100 components were listed, of which the vast majority seemed really well build.
- nawitus 9y agoThat's not correct, the Web Component catalog is completely separate from Polymer. Polymer is a library to make it easier to implement web components. You can use Polymer without using any of the community's components.
- etimberg 9y agoThe downside of polymer is that it doesn't really play nicely with modern toolchains.
- thecrazyone 9y agoWhy not Angular? It's conspicuously missing from these discussions
- c0ndu17 9y agoFrom someone who works with Angular everyday, on a multitude of projects... Angular feels far too heavy in comparison to React. While Angular can do the job, there's just too much bloat.
- Zenbit_UX 9y agoSuper powerful but it's no longer the shinny new penny of front end frameworks. Devs like shinny stuff.