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JavaScript

Posted by Mitul Patel
Mitul Patel
24,890 Points

Building a Personal Component Library

I am looking to build my own component library. I am doing this mostly for the experience in making modular component library

I want to use the following:

  • Polymerjs
  • NodeJS
  • CSS/Sass
  • Gulp
  • Bower

I'm having trouble trying to figure out how to architect this out. Anyone have any ideas? Open to any feedback.

james white
james white
78,399 Points

Hi Mitul,

If you are using Polymer.js and Gulp, perhaps you may want to consider using Atom-Shell.

Atom-Shell is a desktop wrapper for your HTML/JS/CSS based applications, offering a seamless way to inject Node.js code right into your application. Technically it’s Chromium Embedded Framework with a bridge to Node.js. This means, as a very base-level example, I can do direct file-manipulation using Node’s “fs” module. It’s as easy as requiring the package in your front-end code and using it, just the same way as you would in your NodeJS application. You can mix browser based code with NodeJS code, and obviously it doesn’t stop at file manipulation. In theory, most everything you can do in Node can now be done in Atom-Shell. In this way, it’s similar to Node-Webkit.

For a little tutorial on how it works check out this page: http://www.benfarrell.com/2014/07/05/a-polymer-gulp-atom-shell-workflow/