They are two very different technologies. And each will stay as long as the web exists.
In short terms: React offers a virtual dom to your application using a one way data binding flow which makes it easier to reason about the data flow in your application. Polymer does not do this. Polymer is based on the same reasoning that existed before react was invented only this time it aims for easier component reuse for developers. Polymer is sponsored by Google the same company that is sponsoring web components specification of which you can get the most objective information about from https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components Over there is states that the specification is divided into 4 parts: 1. Custom Elements 2. HTML Elements 3. Shadow DOM 4. HTML Imports If you like material design, the best way to get it into your application is to use polymer and it's elements. At some point in the future you may be the one to take both to the alter and wed them so that react can speak web components and leverage the work polymer has already done in this area. Just my two cents. John. 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/e758c731-f735-4941-9d19-0178bd420eca%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
