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Polymer vs Semantic UI: 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; Semantic UI: A UI Component library implemented using a set of specifications designed around natural language. Semantic empowers designers and developers by creating a shared vocabulary for UI.

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

"Web components" is the top reason why over 48 developers like Polymer, while over 134 developers mention "Easy to use and looks elegant" as the leading cause for choosing Semantic UI.

Polymer and Semantic UI are both open source tools. Semantic UI with 45.7K GitHub stars and 4.83K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Polymer with 21.1K GitHub stars and 2K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Semantic UI has a broader approval, being mentioned in 77 company stacks & 50 developers stacks; compared to Polymer, which is listed in 41 company stacks and 30 developer stacks.

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Pros of Polymer

Pros of Semantic UI

51
Web components
30
Material design
14
HTML
13
Components
5
Open source
4
It uses the platform
3
Designer friendly. HTMLX concepts
1
Like the interesting naming convention for elements

157
Easy to use and looks elegant
92
Variety of components
64
Themes
61
Has out-of-the-box widgets i would actually use
57
Semantic, duh
44
Its the future
42
Open source
37
Very active development
31
Far less complicated structure
28
Gulp
9
Already has more features than bootstrap
8
Just compare it to Bootstrap and you'll be hooked
7
UI components
7
Clean and consistent markup model
6
Responsiveness
4
Elegant. clean. readable. maintainable
4
Because it is semantic :-D
4
Good-Looking
2
Great docs
2
Consistent
2
Is big and look really great, nothing like this
2
Modular and scalable
1
Jquery
1
Easy to use
1
Blends with reactjs

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Cons of Polymer

Cons of Semantic UI

1
Last version is like 2 years ago? that's totally rad

5
Outdated build tool (gulp 3))
3
Poor accessibility support
3
HTML is not semantic (see list component)
2
Javascript is tied to jquery

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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 Semantic UI?

Semantic empowers designers and developers by creating a shared vocabulary for UI.

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Jobs that mention Polymer and Semantic UI as a desired skillset

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What companies use Polymer?

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What tools integrate with Polymer?

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What are some alternatives to Polymer and Semantic UI?

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.

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