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A new library built on top of Web Components, designed to leverage the evolving web platform on modern browsers
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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.
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
61 companies reportedly use Polymer in their tech stacks, including Bloomberg LP, Acorns, and Digital Services.

Developers
356 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Polymer.
Pros of Polymer
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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

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.
Bootstrap
Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.
Material Design for Angular
Material Design is a specification for a unified system of visual, motion, and interaction design that adapts across different devices. Our goal is to deliver a lean, lightweight set of AngularJS-native UI elements that implement the material design system for use in Angular SPAs.
Animate.css
It is a bunch of cool, fun, and cross-browser animations for you to use in your projects. Great for emphasis, home pages, sliders, and general just-add-water-awesomeness.
See all alternatives

Polymer's Followers
461 developers follow Polymer to keep up with related blogs and decisions.