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by Pigo 3477 days ago
I first looked at Polymer quite awhile ago, maybe over a year. I guess I kind of thought it was a stepping stone to Angular 2 which uses a component model, like most of the other latest frameworks. Or that maybe it was some kind of special one-off project at Google. Once I stumbled onto Angular Material I sort of forgot about Polymer because I didn't have a dedicated UI guy, and there was a nice cache of controls to work with. I'd consider looking into Polymer again if I see a some good demos in the PolymerElements, and if it seems like there's a roadmap with an active community. I'm always impressed with Google Play Music.
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Some potentially relevant links for you...

1: https://beta.webcomponents.org/ - A public repository of web components (including the official Polymer components and community components).

2: https://polymer-slack.herokuapp.com/ - Join the Polymer community on Slack. All of the core team members are there as well :)

Thanks, I always thought it was a slick project. It was maybe just above my skill-set when I first encountered it, as I was still getting familiar with angular. If it's going to continue to be around for awhile, I want to give it another shot.
> Once I stumbled onto Angular Material I sort of forgot about Polymer because I didn't have a dedicated UI guy

That is kind of funny - because it looks like polymer has much more complete Material UI implementation compared to both Angulars (unless they catched up on that).