Polymer 2.0 - what's new
Taking the advantage of waiting for the I/O 2017 Polymer presentations I decided to share with You what I have seen on the Polymer documentation page about the new Polymer release. Why Polymer? Why now? Polymer seemed to be a forgotten Web Components framework, lost between React and Vue.js. But now after an announcement of YouTube new version usage of Polymer, it plays more and more important role as a Web Framework. Let's see what changes are to come in its second version: New version of Polymer is based on the 3 goals: native web platform features , better interoperability and smooth migration . ES6 users will be happy to hear that Polymer will have ES6 class-based syntax, which will help developers use their favourite standard JavaScript class expression mixins instead of Polymer behaviours. What's more - we will be able to use Polymer shady DOM code as reusable polyfill , not only with Polymer itself. Polymer Custom elements will also have their new v1 ve