Google vends many products and technologies, and is a relatively large company full of smart people with lots of different ideas on how to solve similar problems. There is no singular Google opinion or singular picture Google is painting as a whole.
Angular is one of the best of the current generation of JS frameworks. It is a fine choice for building applications today. Polymer is the first of a next generation of technologies that posit a future where there does not have to be an additional framework layered on top of the web platform, because the platform itself is much more functional now that it has web components. The framework is DOM. We like to say this is like what should have happened if the web platform had kept evolving naturally and not gotten stuck, and a JS-heavy apparatus strapped on top. Polymer is markup- and DOM-centric. Polymer is useful for building custom elements or applications. Elements built with Polymer can easily serve as leaf nodes in applications built with web component-friendly frameworks like Angular 2. Polymer is part of the Chrome team, and as a result embraces the platform and web components in an idiomatic manner. This is also why you see Polymer featured at events like Chrome Dev Summit and Google I/O. Angular is a separate effort by a different team at Google with no relation to Chrome. Hope that helps. -Matt On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 7:49 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Perhaps this is a not a question for a Polymer forum but what is the > picture that Google is painting relative to these web frameworks? For a > new web application development effort what foundation would Google suggest > to build upon? Polymer, AngularJS, some hybrid?" > > Exactly this. > > I'm trying to decide between the myriad frameworks, and Angular/2.0 seems > the most compelling. However, after reading this thread, the purpose of > Polymer and its relationship to Angular is confounding. > > 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/2dc1f504-0706-4e66-b3b8-946c83f92279%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/2dc1f504-0706-4e66-b3b8-946c83f92279%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > 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/CAKrkLHoF2eQGWXkT%3DveitZ%2B08QLT5MBJ3ndQ6ZRO8ogs2p6XBw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
