I am with Eric. Polymer is easy to get going with, lot less surface area than Angular. You'll be writing toy apps within a day or two.
There is a lot of depth behind the simplicity, and mastering that will take a while. The docs are basic, there are few established best practices yet, lots of discovery. It is really fun. You will not find answers to all your questions on Stack Overflow. You are not only learning Polymer, but also all the new DOM/CSS stuff. For the last 5 months, I've been redoing a jQuery app in Polymer, and every week I learn stuff that makes me go back and refactor/improve my old code. New app is 1/5th the size of the old one (the joy of not rolling your own data/template synchronization layer). > I know ExtJS well enough, and have a smattering of other experience in Javascript, but 4 - 5 days to learn polymer and start converting our app? Sounds like you are still new to JS. In that case, Polymer might be a steep climb because docs are pretty sparse. All depends on how complex your previous app was.... Aleks On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 5:24:40 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote: > > The director of our group claimed that for seasoned Javascript developers, > studying any new library to begin converting an app should only take 4 or 5 > days. > > I think that's kind of insane, but I wanted to get your opinion. > > I know ExtJS well enough, and have a smattering of other experience in > Javascript, but 4 - 5 days to learn polymer and start converting our app? > > What do you think, and thanks! > 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/4f3383f7-36a8-4d51-bb45-5642e52a468b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
