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Foundation vs Polymer: What are the differences?

What is Foundation? The most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world. Foundation is the most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world. You can quickly prototype and build sites or apps that work on any kind of device with Foundation, which includes layout constructs (like a fully responsive grid), elements and best practices.

What is 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.

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

"Responsive grid" is the primary reason why developers consider Foundation over the competitors, whereas "Web components" was stated as the key factor in picking Polymer.

Foundation and Polymer are both open source tools. It seems that Foundation with 28.2K GitHub stars and 5.77K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Polymer with 21.1K GitHub stars and 2K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Foundation has a broader approval, being mentioned in 653 company stacks & 77 developers stacks; compared to Polymer, which is listed in 42 company stacks and 32 developer stacks.

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Pros of Foundation
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    Responsive grid
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    Mobile first
  • 80
    Open source
  • 75
    Semantic
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    Customizable
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    Quick to prototype
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    Simple ui
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    Fast
  • 44
    Best practices
  • 39
    Easy setup
  • 6
    Neutral style
  • 6
    HTML, SCSS and JS
  • 5
    Accessibility support
  • 5
    Professional
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    Xy grid
  • 2
    Sass
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    Every new version is smaller, smarter & more efficient
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    Robust
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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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Cons of Foundation
Cons of Polymer
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    Requires jQuery
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    Awful site
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    Last version is like 2 years ago? that's totally rad

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What is Foundation?

Foundation is the most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world. You can quickly prototype and build sites or apps that work on any kind of device with Foundation, which includes layout constructs (like a fully responsive grid), elements and best practices.

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.

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