It seems to be addressed in the stack overflow post. For myself personally the platform will win over using libraries like React everyday as long as I can use the platform. Currently React works with IE8 which is still a hard requirement for many developers, although I would prefer to use the platform.
I haven't looked at the Custom Elements polyfill code too much but I might experiment with it to see if it could be made work in IE8 with some developer assistance. Instead of relying on DOM events to upgrade elements get the developer to manually request element upgrade. It's not ideal but IE8 will probably be an unpleasant burden for many developers for a year if not more. On Friday, January 24, 2014 9:48:21 PM UTC, John Barton wrote: > > I think it would be helpful if you suggested reasons to think these two > things are alternatives that need to be compared. > jjb > > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Clayton Watts <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Just posted a question on StackOverflow that could use an answer by >> someone familiar with both Polymer and Facebook's React library: >> >> What are the main benefits of Facebook's React over the upcoming Web >> Components spec and vice versa (or perhaps a more apples-to-apples >> comparison would be to Google's Polymer library)? >> >> >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21342288/pros-and-cons-of-facebooks-react-vs-web-components-polymer >> >> Clayton >> >> Follow Polymer on Google+: plus.google.com/107187849809354688692 >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Polymer" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/CAGw__zGhMT521agzPxDTTVfaiFh%2BMe9CqAhZnZXTcVJYDWPosA%40mail.gmail.com >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > Follow Polymer on Google+: plus.google.com/107187849809354688692 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Polymer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/eb8e8c6d-eb51-48ab-b6be-ce27316779d3%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
