Hi Mo. So these are a lot of question, I try to answer them one by one.
> Polymer doesn't seem to address the problem of routing in a Single Page Application (although there appears to be a few fledgling attempts in the Web Components community to provide "router" elements). So, Polymer just uses Web Components polyfills under the hood and adds a small sugar layer on top of that to give a direction on how to uses the four specs (Custom Elements, Shadow DOM, HTML Templates, HTML Imports) in combination. In addition there are a lot of web components already implemented with Polymer (like paper elements or core element) to bring specific functionality to your web app via web components. In the end it's not polymer's job to provide web components that handle routing, *but* you *can* build web components with it, to make that possible. Just like things like `core-localstorage` etc. are not really *part* of Polymer but *built with* Polymer. > As far as I can see Polymer handles templating, data binding, data persistence (via "core-localstorage" etc), modularity (via HTML imports) and AJAX (via "core-ajax"). The only things that is missing is routing. Like mention above, doesn't really handle data persistence. `core-localstorage` is just an element built with Polymer to make data persistence possible via web components. Same goes for `core-ajax`. So, one can't really say that Polymer misses a web component that handles routing. > Most questions about how Polymer fits into other frameworks generates the response "They're just DOM elements, anything that understands the DOM will understand Polymer elements." This isn't strictly fair when we can already see that the Angular 2.0 templating will need some additional work to integrate with Web Components: https://github.com/angular/templating/issues/9 This is due to the fact that angular has it's own implementation to create custom elements (Angular Directives). Angular comes with its own kind of event loop to make two-way data-binding possible. These are not compatible with (native or custom) Elements per se. However, there are plans to make angular work with custom elements (that are not made in the angular world via directives) out of the box. You can read about it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L-9bBL-smMrAmxC_pVBdKWKcB-ZlOLTj-jmzAJ2jKeE/edit I hope this answers a few of your questions. /pp On Friday, June 27, 2014 11:37:33 AM UTC+2, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have a couple question about the future of AngularJS, specifically about > the upcoming 2.0 version, and how it relates to Polymer. I've been through > previous posts on the forums, articles about it on the web and all the > answers I could find from last year. > > Polymer seems to focus on composition of elements on a page, these > elements can be visible or not and can have associated behaviour, combined > with data binding and event dispatching it makes it very easy to share > state and trigger updates when information is changed. Polymer doesn't seem > to address the problem of routing in a Single Page Application (although > there appears to be a few fledgling attempts in the Web Components > community to provide "router" elements). > > In the Topeka example application from the Polymer team, the "sign in" > view doesn't appear to have any kind of representation in the URL. No > hash-fragment, no direct way to reach that view. They do use HTML5 > pushState for history though, although this is manually wired up. > > As far as I can see Polymer handles templating, data binding, data > persistence (via "core-localstorage" etc), modularity (via HTML imports) > and AJAX (via "core-ajax"). The only things that is missing is routing. > > Most questions about how Polymer fits into other frameworks generates the > response "They're just DOM elements, anything that understands the DOM will > understand Polymer elements." This isn't strictly fair when we can already > see that the Angular 2.0 templating will need some additional work to > integrate with Web Components: > https://github.com/angular/templating/issues/9 > > > Where does Angular 2.0 fit alongside Polymer if routing is addressed? How > will they work together? Does Polymer plan to enable support for building > Single Page Applications? > > > Cheers, > > Mo. > 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/11397038-d534-4a49-af45-1e48c80abfb2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
