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0 pointsprohor9y ago0 comments

Polymer and Angular 2.0 seems to have a lot concepts in common and I don't fully understand why they are going to compete, given they come from the same source. But for me it seems that Polymer nowhere picked up as Angular.

When it comes to performance it is great in Chrome. In other browsers not so. I hope v2 will be much better once they can get rid of the compatibility layer for other ever-green browsers.

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ergo149y ago

Have you actually benchmarked polymer in a non-chrome browser?

It is much faster than Angular - somewhere around React performance. Polymer is picked up by big companies already whereas "no one"(big) is using angular 2.x for now.

People here seem to project a weird bubble around Angular/React.

> In other browsers not so. I hope v2 will be much better once they can get rid of the compatibility layer for other ever-green browsers.

Browsers get rid of it on their own - when they implement the standards, shims load when specific functionality is found or not.

prohorOP9y ago

I'm not comparing against Angular (which in v1 is known not to be super fast) just between browsers. I was mainly looking at https://vaadin.github.io/gwt-polymer-elements/demo/#gwt/Java... . It uses a lot of widgets on one page. Take a look how on loads in Chrome, Firefox, Edge (refresh to minimize network effects). I didn't go really deep in it, but first look was that lots of time was used in registering custom elements. Sure, here it is wrapped in GWT (which would be my case), but it doesn't seem to add much, rather the fact it loads all widgets from Polymer.

ergo149y ago

But how can you be sure the problem is not in specific element implementation? DBMonster tests show that performance in rendering is ok. FWIW - I develop on firefox with shady DOM and then test in full shadow DOM in chromium - performance was very good for us in both firefox and IE (at least for the things we used).

Bahamut9y ago

A lot of big companies have been using Angular 2 for a while from what I understand. Canon was using it while it was in the alpha stages. Tesla went all in on Angular 2. Thomson Reuters had the largest Angular 1 app in the world, and they are moving to Angular 2.

The Angular team has made significant efforts to court them/cater to them, even employing a CSM, and two developer advocates. Those are just examples I've heard/interacted with in the wild, but I'm just a developer at a small company & not part of the Angular team.

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ergo149y ago

Have you actually benchmarked polymer in a non-chrome browser?

It is much faster than Angular - somewhere around React performance. Polymer is picked up by big companies already whereas "no one"(big) is using angular 2.x for now.

People here seem to project a weird bubble around Angular/React.

> In other browsers not so. I hope v2 will be much better once they can get rid of the compatibility layer for other ever-green browsers.

Browsers get rid of it on their own - when they implement the standards, shims load when specific functionality is found or not.

prohorOP9y ago

ergo149y ago

Bahamut9y ago

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