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JavaScript

Posted by Varun Dixit
Varun Dixit
699 Points

What is polymer????? and why i should use it does it is something like react.js or angular.js??

Guil Hernandez Hello sir, can you please tell what is polymer is it is something like angular.js or react.js. polymer is used for ?????

1 Answer

Luke Pettway
Luke Pettway
16,593 Points
Luke Pettway
Luke Pettway
16,593 Points

Polymer is a library for creating web components whereas Angular is a Framework, and React is a library for building user interfaces. I can't speak personally for using Polymer, but here is an article that talks about why you might want to check it out: https://home-assistant.io/blog/2016/05/18/why-we-use-polymer/. So in the sense that both React and Angular can create components, yes Polymer is similar but only in terms of creating those components, Angular has a lot of framework specific features just like React does.