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Polymer vs Water.css: What are the differences?

Polymer: A new library built on top of Web Components, designed to leverage the evolving web platform on modern browsers. Polymer is a new type of library for the web, designed to leverage the existing browser infrastructure to provide the encapsulation and extendability currently only available in JS libraries. Polymer is based on a set of future technologies, including Shadow DOM, Custom Elements and Model Driven Views. Currently these technologies are implemented as polyfills or shims, but as browsers adopt these features natively, the platform code that drives Polymer evacipates, leaving only the value-adds; Water.css: A just-add-css collection of styles to make simple websites just a little nicer. A css framework that doesn't require any classes. You just include it in your

and forget about it, while it silently makes everything nicer.

Polymer and Water.css can be primarily classified as "Front-End Frameworks" tools.

Polymer and Water.css are both open source tools. Polymer with 21.1K GitHub stars and 2K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Water.css with 4.09K GitHub stars and 157 GitHub forks.

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Web components
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Material design
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HTML
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Components
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Open source
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It uses the platform
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Designer friendly. HTMLX concepts
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Like the interesting naming convention for elements

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Last version is like 2 years ago? that's totally rad

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What is Polymer?

Polymer is a new type of library for the web, designed to leverage the existing browser infrastructure to provide the encapsulation and extendability currently only available in JS libraries. Polymer is based on a set of future technologies, including Shadow DOM, Custom Elements and Model Driven Views. Currently these technologies are implemented as polyfills or shims, but as browsers adopt these features natively, the platform code that drives Polymer evacipates, leaving only the value-adds.

What is Water.css?

A css framework that doesn't require any classes. You just include it in your <head> and forget about it, while it silently makes everything nicer.

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What are some alternatives to Polymer and Water.css?

React

Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.

Angular

It is a TypeScript-based open-source web application framework. It is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications.

JavaScript

JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

GitHub

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.

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