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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.

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Pros of Polymer
Pros of Skeleton
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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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    Minimalist
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    Responsive
  • 4
    Simple
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    Fantastically straight forward
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    Lightweight, clean syntax
  • 1
    More than an Alternative
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    Lightweight

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Cons of Polymer
Cons of Skeleton
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    Last version is like 2 years ago? that's totally rad
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    Have to make design decisions

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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 Skeleton?

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.

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What are some alternatives to Polymer and Skeleton?
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.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
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