Shameless self promotion......you could use Aurelia with Polymer ;) On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 3:34 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> I tend to agree with you and share a similar dilemma as well. I've been > playing around with Polymer for about a month now, as well as Angular 2.0 > and ai must say, I have grown very "fond" of polymer. There's almost a > certain finesse and elegance introduced to web development with web > components and Polymer. > > I'm about to start a large project with my team, and we almost refuse > entirely to use Angular 1.x, because we see the glory of Angular 2 and we > so want to bask in it. We have also talked about using Angular with Polymer > as well, but just can't resolve to use Angular 1 because we actually want > to write the UI for our apps with ES6. We see Polymer as a great platform > for our UI, and Angular 2 as the "UI glue". But what do we do in this > transition period (i.e. Angular 1.x to 2)? Do we use Angular 1.x when > Angular 2 seems to be so close? > > > On Friday, March 6, 2015 at 1:16:35 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Yes that does help quite a bit in understanding how these frameworks are >> evolving. I appreciate your response. I would agree with your statement >> that "Angular is a fine choice for building applications today" except the >> 2.0 effort really gives me pause. Do I invest thousands of hours >> developing a system on a foundation that is to completely change in the not >> too distant future? Or instead do I invest in a newer framework (Polymer) >> that may possibly better represent the future? >> >> I did find this post: http://blog.sethladd.com/2014/02/angular-and- >> polymer-data-binding.html that was really effective in illustrating >> strengths of both frameworks, overlaps and how to get them to work together. >> >> I do appreciate that Google is full of smart people solving problems in >> different ways. However, I perceive Google, as a customer, as one entity >> that provides many services useful to me personally and professionally. >> I'm hopeful that soon Google will communicate a consolidated, cohesive >> vision for web application frameworks. Don't get me wrong, I'm >> appreciative of the work that's being done, it just gets difficult at times >> to sift the best choices out of the plethora of technology stack choices. >> >> >> On Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 11:14:41 PM UTC-6, Matthew McNulty wrote: >>> >>> >>> 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "Polymer" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/polymer-dev/fAvqDo40tMk/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/7a534af6-e8d0-4520-9d90-a06dbcc62cee%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/7a534af6-e8d0-4520-9d90-a06dbcc62cee%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Rob Eisenberg, President - Blue Spire www.durandaljs.com Follow Polymer on Google+: plus.google.com/107187849809354688692 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Polymer" group. 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