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Polymer vs Skeleton: 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; Skeleton: A Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development. Skeleton is a small collection of CSS files that can help you rapidly develop sites that look beautiful at any size, be it a 17" laptop screen or an iPhone.
Polymer and Skeleton belong to "Front-End Frameworks" category of the tech stack.
"Web components" is the top reason why over 49 developers like Polymer, while over 7 developers mention "Minimalist" as the leading cause for choosing Skeleton.
Polymer and Skeleton are both open source tools. Polymer with 21.1K GitHub stars and 2K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Skeleton with 16.8K GitHub stars and 2.93K GitHub forks.
AX Semantics, USERcycle, and Telemetry are some of the popular companies that use Polymer, whereas Skeleton is used by Ledger Note, Spirit Pixels™, and emotion.me. Polymer has a broader approval, being mentioned in 42 company stacks & 32 developers stacks; compared to Skeleton, which is listed in 8 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
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 Skeleton
- Minimalist9
- Responsive6
- Simple4
- Fantastically straight forward2
- Lightweight, clean syntax1
- More than an Alternative1
- Lightweight1
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Cons of Polymer
- Last version is like 2 years ago? that's totally rad1
Cons of Skeleton
- Have to make design decisions0