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.
Polymer is a tool in the Front-End Frameworks category of a tech stack.
Polymer is an open source tool with 22K GitHub stars and 2K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Polymer's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Polymer?
Companies
60 companies reportedly use Polymer in their tech stacks, including Bloomberg LP, Acorns, and Digital Services.
Developers
359 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Polymer.
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Polymer Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Polymer?
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.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
