Polymer (library)

Public development of Polymer began in November 2013 with the release of a Promises Polyfill. This steadily expanded into a web design library covering visual styling guidelines (via Material Design), data binding, and a large number of "Core" and "Paper" Web Components. Core components were originally envisioned to encompass generic functionality that would be essential to most websites, while Paper components were intended to provide more specialized components with Material Design concepts forming a key part of their design. A major milestone was reached with the release of Version 0.5, which was considered the first version of the project ready for use by early adopters.{{cite web|url=http://www.androidauthority.com/polymer-elements-material-design-397858/|title=Polymer gives us a closer look at Google's Material Design UI|work=Android Authority|access-date=2015-08-21|archive-date=2021-08-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210805140115/https://www.androidauthority.com/polymer-elements-material-design-397858/|url-status=dead}}

Google continued to revise the design of Polymer after the release of 0.5, with special consideration given to the performance issues a number of developers found. This culminated with the release of Polymer 1.0 in 2015, which was the first "production ready" version of the library.{{cite web|url=http://www.cio.com/article/2927587/web-development/google-polymer-brings-reuse-and-better-branding-to-web-development.html|title=Google's Polymer 1.0 brings reuse and better branding to Web development|author=Steven Max Patterson|date=29 May 2015|work=CIO|access-date=21 August 2015|archive-date=9 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181209165439/https://www.cio.com/article/2927587/web-development/google-polymer-brings-reuse-and-better-branding-to-web-development.html|url-status=dead}} Version 1.0 significantly improved the performance of Polymer, reducing load times by up to 7 times.{{cite web|url=https://www.polymer-project.org/1.0/|title=Welcome - Polymer 1.0|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150814004009/https://www.polymer-project.org/1.0/|archive-date=2015-08-14}} With version 1.0 Google split the elements from the Polymer project to clearly distinguish the elements catalog from the Polymer polyfill & webcomponents-sugaring library.

On 14–15 September 2015, Google organized a Polymer Summit in Amsterdam.

On 17–18 October 2016, Google organized a Polymer Summit in London.

On 22–23 August 2017, Google organized a Polymer Summit in Copenhagen.

On 2 May 2018, the Polymer team announced that any future development in Polymer will shift away from its two-way binding and its template system, and will focus on LitElement{{cite web|url=https://www.polymer-project.org/blog/2018-05-02-roadmap-update.html#libraries|title=Roadmap update, part 1: 3.0 and beyond}} (still part of Polymer{{Cite news|url=https://twitter.com/justinfagnani/status/994358200538349568|title=Justin Fagnani on Twitter|work=Twitter|access-date=2018-05-14|language=en}}) and one-way bindings.{{Cite web|url=https://www.polymer-project.org/blog/2018-05-02-roadmap-faq.html#can-i-keep-using-the-polymer-data-system|title=Roadmap update, part 2: FAQ - Polymer Project|website=www.polymer-project.org|language=en|access-date=2018-05-14}}

Polymer provides a number of features over vanilla Web Components:

• Simplified way of creating custom elements
• Both One-way and Two-way data binding
• Computed properties
• Conditional and repeat templates
• Gesture events

Polymer has begun to gain increasing recognition in the market, with spikes in use in 2015 and 2016 as documented by the website BuiltWith.{{cite web |title=Polymer Usage Statistics |url=https://trends.builtwith.com/javascript/Polymer |website=BuiltWith |access-date=30 May 2019 |date=March 2019}} Special attention has been paid to its structured design process, allowing for an interoperable "Lego Block" structure.{{cite web|url=http://www.itnews.com.au/News/407763,inside-ing-directs-new-lego-block-app-architecture.aspx|title=Inside ING Direct's new lego block app architecture|author=Allie Coyne|date=13 August 2015|work=iTnews}} LitElement was developed by the Google Chrome team as part of the Polymer project in 2018. LitElement was designed to be a lightweight and easy-to-use framework for creating web components that can be used with any front-end framework or library.

Custom elements can be created using ES (ECMAScript, most commonly JavaScript) modules with classes. Custom element definition comprises CSS style, HTML template of the element's local DOM, element properties, lifecycle callbacks and JavaScript methods:

import {PolymerElement, html} from '@polymer/polymer'

class HelloElement extends PolymerElement {

// Define the element's template

static get template() {

return html`

Hello {{name}}!

`;

}

static get is() { return 'hello-element'; }

// Define public API properties

static get properties() {

return {

name: {

type: String

}

};

}

}

window.customElements.define(HelloElement.is, HelloElement);

The element defined above can be used in HTML code:

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{{Reflist}}

• {{Official website|https://www.polymer-project.org}}
• {{GitHub|https://github.com/Polymer/polymer}}
• {{URL|https://www.webcomponents.org/}}

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