Web components are a set of standards for creating custom, reusable HTML elements. Polymer is an open-source JavaScript library for building web applications using web components. Created by those clever folks at Google, it provides a number of additional features over vanilla web components and when used with a polyfi...
This article was peer reviewed by Mallory van Achterberg. Thanks to all of SitePoint’s peer reviewers for making SitePoint content the best it can be! In a previous article I demonstrated how to create a multiselect web component. In the comments section of that article, readers touched on the very important subject ...
Web applications become every day more complicated and require a lot of markup, scripts and styling. To manage and maintain hundred kilobytes of HTML, JS, and CSS we try to split our application into reusable components. We try hard to encapsulate components and prevent styles clashing and scripts interference. In the ...
Last September, Google held the Polymer Summit 2015. During this conference, developers supplied a great deal of input about new things made possible by Polymer. Polymer 1.0 had been released earlier, which added to the anticipation that so many had for this year’s conference. Among the speakers of this years, there ...
Web components are becoming the future trend of Web application development. They allow us to group HTML markup, scripts, and styles into a reusable component. These components are part of the browser and hence don’t need external JavaScript libraries like jQuery to provide its functionality. As reported by Wikip...
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