The alternative, Nathan, is to build your own (as we have done). You still end up with a Framework/Library full of code, but at least you will have created it all yourself (well mostly anyway). One of our aims was for the developer to be able to add feature rich components to the markup without having to write reams of code to do so. If you stick to a pure HTML/CSS approach then you end up lots of (not necessarily reusable) code anyway - just at a lower level. A very small amount of markup can then deliver a feature rich UI - a fraction of the code that you would have to produce if you hand cranked the HTML. Horses for courses I guess.
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From: WEB400 [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
Sent: 18 June 2015 16:56
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Single Page Applications
I see some overlap between Polymer and Angular in that both include additional tags. Both support the development new tag libraries, including tag attributes, directives, and functions which create and manipulate the DOM based thereon.
Polymer includes a fairly robust library of visual components which is more comparable to Angular UI, while Angular JS includes a fairly broadly scoped framework for developing client-side applications; which IMHO is overly scoped and esoteric.
It appears that Google views Angular JS 2.0 as the replacement of Angular JS. The migration path from one to the other (if any) has not been determined. But there are quite a few comments from Google including rationale for moving to 2.0.
I've grown leery of visual component libraries and frameworks which position themselves as replacements to HTML. I've been reviewing quite a few. I prefer tag-based over JSON-based components. I agree with some of their visual and behavioral extensions. But the "cons" generally outweigh the "pros".
Too much code included in the framework. Performance concerns. Moderate to intensive training required. Mostly there is often no clear advantage of using them over standard HTML, CSS, and modest amounts of JS to handle events.
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