In the past two weeks I've been looking into using Polymer and lots of the elements that are made available by Google for a Meteor app and there are some issues that I've encountered:
*The biggest problems that I see, though there might be more:* 1. Web Components / Polymer doesn't offer server side rendering. Does this mean we can't have any SEO at all for SPA apps? 2. Web Components seem to have problems with custom initializing when you change routes on an app with a different framework than Polymer (meteor at least does have that issue, paper-buttons break for example) 3. Changing DOM is not yet steramlined. If I want to change the text of a paper-button for example I need to select the paper-material inside it with querySelector and change its text there (shouldn't this be impossible actually? Is this due to shadyDOM?) Those challenges make me wonder if it's safe to use polymer in production right now. 1) and 2) are serious showstoppers. I can live with 3) Does SEO work properly with custom elements? There are problems with using Polymer with other frameworks that I wasn't aware of (though there were others instead) prior to switching from 0.5 to 1.0. I'm assuming getting away with the complete shadow DOM polyfill has created those issues. The question is: Will those be resolved, if so when? From the looks of it we'll be stuck with polyfills for at least another year, so resolving the current issues when using Polymer need to be resolved if it has to be used in production. As is right now I am uncertain of continuing development with Polymer and switching to React while I don't have too many components in use yet. Any thoughts? It would be really great to get feedback from the Polymer team on this. 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/879462ff-1bd5-44d1-b4c1-49274595f948%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
