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Polymer vs Pure: What are the differences?
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.
What is Pure? A set of small, responsive CSS modules that you can use in every web project. Pure is meant to be a starting point for every website or web app. We take care of all the CSS work that every site needs, without making it look cookie-cutter.
Polymer and Pure can be categorized as "Front-End Frameworks" tools.
"Web components" is the top reason why over 49 developers like Polymer, while over 12 developers mention "Lightweight" as the leading cause for choosing Pure.
Polymer and Pure are both open source tools. Polymer with 21.1K GitHub stars and 2K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Pure with 20.1K GitHub stars and 2.07K GitHub forks.
Pros of Polymer
- Web components52
- Material design30
- HTML14
- Components13
- Open source5
- It uses the platform4
- Designer friendly. HTMLX concepts3
- Like the interesting naming convention for elements1
Pros of Pure
- Lightweight14
- Simple10
- Responsive10
- Minimalist9
- Pure4
- Css4
- Open source3
- Neutral style3
- Consistently2
- It just works1
- Small footprint1
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Cons of Polymer
- Last version is like 2 years ago? that's totally rad1