Google Polymer Popularity?

[Colin Cannon]

I started using polymer late last year.  I really like it as it was quite different from my normal methodologies to which I had become accustomed.  Although I like it and have devoted a significant amount of time to learning and using it, I am not sure if it is gaining ground or not.

Does anyone know if it is really taking off?  I wonder if google is adding or subtracting resources devoted to Polymer.  I noticed that the Polymer site hasn't been updated to announce a Summit for 2016.

[Eric Bidelman]

+Taylor Savage 

Very much alive and gaining momentum. At the Chrome dev summit, Taylor announced 1M+ URLs are using Polymer and this is growing by the day, including Google properties.

There's also been a lot of momentum in the web standards space recently. The Custom elements face-to-face went very well

and it looks like Apple/MS/Moz will all start/finish implementing now that the spec changes are in the worlks

Since the holidays, the team has been heads down planning out the year. We just finished a 2-week planning sprint :)

I think Taylor plans to share our roadmap soon so everyone can see what's in store!

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 2:48 PM Colin Cannon <colin...@gmail.com> wrote:

I started using polymer late last year.  I really like it as it was quite different from my normal methodologies to which I had become accustomed.  Although I like it and have devoted a significant amount of time to learning and using it, I am not sure if it is gaining ground or not.

Does anyone know if it is really taking off?  I wonder if google is adding or subtracting resources devoted to Polymer.  I noticed that the Polymer site hasn't been updated to announce a Summit for 2016.

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[Taylor Savage]

Hey Colin - thanks for reaching out.

Polymer has been growing exponentially, and is a major project here at Google. Here's a snapshot of the latest use of Polymer internally (y-axis unfortunately has to be removed, but purple is # of unique components, teal is # of projects, and projects is in the multiple 100's including some of the biggest by daily active users):

The Polymer team has doubled in size in the last year to over 20 engineers and is continuing to grow, and we'll certainly be having additional Summits (currently in the planning stages).

And I think most importantly, the biggest milestone of all is right around the corner as Eric mentions, with Custom Elements and Shadow DOM soon to be shipping broadly.

We completed a major planning phase in January and hashed out some top priorities for the first half of the year - we'll be posting this on Github and going over in more detail on a blog post very shortly.

Hope that helps a bit, and really glad to hear you've been enjoying using Polymer!

Taylor

[Arthur Evans]

Hi Colin,

As far as the site goes, since the start of the year we've added:

- A new tutorial.

- A new tools section, including new guides on documenting elements and unit testing (with another on using vulcanize landing sometime this week).

- Up-to-date API docs that support deep-linking.

We're working on a larger refactoring of our site, so we haven't done anything with the landing page recently, but the site content is being updated regularly. 

Cheers,

Arthur

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[Colin Cannon]

Thanks for the info.  I am a big Polymer fan, keep up the good work!

[prasha...@gmail.com]

How about now? is polymer dead already?

[Joern Turner]

hm - the silence is suspicious. Would be good to get an update on that. The information provided via blog etc is quite sparse.

Don't think it's dead myself as Google is using it in some of their flagships (Youtube, Tensorboard) but a bit more publicity would help to argue with customers that you want to get on the train.

[Frank R.]

A web technology affiliated with a browser vendor... A victim of browser wars?

Was it an idea rooted in the independent developer community, still? IMHO, at least the first of the following has been given up since Polymer 3. 

a) templating --  for astoundingly fast creation of DOM chunks using

declarative syntax;

b) shadow DOM -- for maximum-pleasure encapsulation and leak-free

component abstraction of DOM chunks;

c) binding -- for joy-filled extension and decoration DOM elements.

Has it ever been "4x more HTML, CSS, JSON, MARKDOWN, 10x less JAVASCRIPT," really? Will it ever be?

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