Thanks for your reply. I forgot that Polymer was designed to be modular in 
case others want to use a mix of components from different vendors. I guess 
for now I need to figure out grunt 
<https://www.npmjs.com/package/grunt-minify-polymer> in order to minify my 
vulcanized components. 

On Friday, December 4, 2015 at 9:06:53 PM UTC-5, Eric Bidelman wrote:
>
> The a la carte nature of web components means you only need to load the 
> components you need. If someone only wants to use a paper-button on their 
> page, why should they be forced to request a vulcanized build of all the 
> minified components? How would this work in practice?
>
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 5:36 PM <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to be able to use Polymer on a production environment, and 
>> Polymer has a nice shopping cart style, but it isn't ideal.
>>
>> 1. It only downloads individual components, unminified, and without their 
>> dependencies (bower makes this step easier, but all files are still 
>> unminified)
>> 2. You end up with a couple <link rel="import" /> tags in the <head>, but 
>> they rely on multiple dependencies, resulting in numerous http requests 
>> (hence the need to vulcanize)
>> 3. After vulcanizing, you need to minify it yourself
>>
>> I hope someday soon I'll be able to check out my favourite elements to 
>> the shopping cart, and download 1-2 minified files for production use: (1) 
>> the polymer components vulcanized and minified, (2) webcomponentsjs - which 
>> I understand must be loaded outside of the polymer components. 
>>
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