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Polymer vs Web Components: What are the differences?

Developers describe Polymer as "A new library built on top of Web Components, designed to leverage the evolving web platform on modern browsers". Polymer is a new type of library for the web, designed to leverage the existing browser infrastructure to provide the encapsulation and extendability currently only available in JS libraries. Polymer is based on a set of future technologies, including Shadow DOM, Custom Elements and Model Driven Views. Currently these technologies are implemented as polyfills or shims, but as browsers adopt these features natively, the platform code that drives Polymer evacipates, leaving only the value-adds. On the other hand, Web Components is detailed as "A set of web platform APIs that allow you to create new custom, reusable, encapsulated HTML tags to use in web apps". Web components are a set of web platform APIs that allow you to create new custom, reusable, encapsulated HTML tags to use in web pages and web apps.

Polymer and Web Components belong to "Front-End Frameworks" category of the tech stack.

Polymer is an open source tool with 21.4K GitHub stars and 2.02K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Polymer's open source repository on GitHub.

Bloomberg LP, MobilePay, and Lumeneo.com are some of the popular companies that use Polymer, whereas Web Components is used by Mogic GmbH, Health Dynamics, and Invia Flights Germany GmbH. Polymer has a broader approval, being mentioned in 61 company stacks & 296 developers stacks; compared to Web Components, which is listed in 15 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.

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Pros of Polymer
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    Web components
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    Material design
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    HTML
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    Components
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    Open source
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    It uses the platform
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    Designer friendly. HTMLX concepts
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    Like the interesting naming convention for elements
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    Cons of Polymer
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      Last version is like 2 years ago? that's totally rad
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      What is Polymer?

      Polymer is a new type of library for the web, designed to leverage the existing browser infrastructure to provide the encapsulation and extendability currently only available in JS libraries. Polymer is based on a set of future technologies, including Shadow DOM, Custom Elements and Model Driven Views. Currently these technologies are implemented as polyfills or shims, but as browsers adopt these features natively, the platform code that drives Polymer evacipates, leaving only the value-adds.

      What is Web Components?

      Web components are a set of web platform APIs that allow you to create new custom, reusable, encapsulated HTML tags to use in web pages and web apps.

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      What are some alternatives to Polymer and Web Components?
      React
      Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.
      Angular
      It is a TypeScript-based open-source web application framework. It is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications.
      JavaScript
      JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
      Python
      Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
      Node.js
      Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
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