I've built a few projects with Polymer, including this public-facing one (http://securesha.re), which is a poster child for why you shouldn't use pre-alpha software (see the blown stack in the console; this was working just fine a few browser releases ago). Thankfully, it's not a critical app and it's more of a proof-of-concept than anything else. The source is available below [1].
It was a joy to build Secureshare with Polymer and it really made me rethink what an HTML element can be and what it can do. You have to unlearn years or decades of assuming that an HTML element has almost no useful API; with Polymer, you're likely to define many core application functions directly on DOM elements themselves. It's a lot of fun once you get used to it. <polymer-localstorage> and <polymer-media-query> really opened my eyes to what was possible with this new paradigm, and it is unquestionably cleaner than what has come before.
More than anything, I'm excited for the inevitable deluge of web components; finally, UI libraries that can that be mixed and matched in any web application without regard for what other JS and CSS is on the page. True isolation allows us to create truly fantastic projects.
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I've built a few projects with Polymer, including this public-facing one (http://securesha.re), which is a poster child for why you shouldn't use pre-alpha software (see the blown stack in the console; this was working just fine a few browser releases ago). Thankfully, it's not a critical app and it's more of a proof-of-concept than anything else. The source is available below [1].
It was a joy to build Secureshare with Polymer and it really made me rethink what an HTML element can be and what it can do. You have to unlearn years or decades of assuming that an HTML element has almost no useful API; with Polymer, you're likely to define many core application functions directly on DOM elements themselves. It's a lot of fun once you get used to it. <polymer-localstorage> and <polymer-media-query> really opened my eyes to what was possible with this new paradigm, and it is unquestionably cleaner than what has come before.
More than anything, I'm excited for the inevitable deluge of web components; finally, UI libraries that can that be mixed and matched in any web application without regard for what other JS and CSS is on the page. True isolation allows us to create truly fantastic projects.
[1] https://github.com/STRML/securesha.re-client