14: Web Components Interop and Polymer

Today, Web Components have emerged from cutting edge technologies to technologies we can implement in our small scale production. It won’t be long before we are building large scale applications with Custom Elements, HTML Imports, Template Tags, and the infamous Shadow DOM. In embracing this type of developer environment, with it’s flexibility and compositional nature, consider interoperabilty as a core concept. If you need a custom element for a card layout, as an example, you should be able to use any Web Component out there in the ecosystem regardless of which library or toolchain it comes from. If the component provides the desired functionality and styling you would require it should work seamlessly in your application. Furthermore, toolsets should not limit the the extending and composition of these custom elements. In practice, this may or may not always be the case and library & toolchain creators will need to be aware of these concerns. Rob Dodson (@rob_dodson), Developer Advocate on the Google Chrome team, talks about his thoughts on the subject. Rob is helping to educate developers, not just about Google’s Polymer Library built on top of Web Components, but across the entire Web Components community. Rob goes through many of the changes made to Polymer 0.4.2, including accessibility and performance that help in making applications more integrated and how Google is working to share what the Blink Team has learned from implementing Web Components in Chrome with other browser vendors and developers. Working closely with Mozilla developers on his SFHTML 5 Meetup talk on Web Components Mashups, Rob was able to collaborate and share ideas so that Web Components could alleviate many of the concerns we had when migrating from one JavaScript library to another. It is painful for developers to have to remake components every time they switch libraries or frameworks. Web Components aims to make that a thing of the past and Rob has done much more on this topic since that talk. Have a listen and hear what he has to say. Resources Rob’s Blog - http://robdodson.me/ I/O Presentation - http://webcomponents.org/presentations/unlock-the-next-era-of-ui-development-with-polymer-at-io/ Accessible Web Components Part 1 -https://www.polymer-project.org/articles/accessible-web-components.html SFHTML Mashup Video -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75EuHl6CSTo The Web Platform Status for IE - https://status.modern.ie/ IE Beta Channel - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=43360 Polytechnic Events - http://itshackademic.com/ Polycast Playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOU2XLYxmsII5c3Mgw6fNYCzaWrsM3sMN Custom Elements on GitHub - https://twitter.com/polymer/status/464103568392200193 IE Platform Voting -https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/257854-internet-explorer-platform customelements.io - http://customelements.io/ Webcomponents.org -http://webcomponents.org/ Bosonic Shadow DOM Issue (#4) - https://github.com/bosonic/bosonic/issues/4 The Bower Package Manager - http://bower.io/ Divshot - http://divshot.io Divshot Blog - https://divshot.com/blog/ BuiltWithPolymer - http://builtwithpolymer.org/ Divshot’s Web Component Playground - https://ele.io/ Angular 2 Web Components Data Binding Document - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kpuR512G1b0D8egl9245OHaG0cFh0ST0ekhD_g8sxtI/edit?hl=en&forcehl=1&pli=1#heading=h.xgjl2srtytjt ReadTheSource - http://hangouts.readthesource.io/hangouts/divshot-superstatic/ RailsCasts -http://railscasts.com/ PhantomJS -https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/wiki/PhantomJS-2 saucelabs -https://saucelabs.com/ People Alex Russel -https://twitter.com/slightlylate Alice Boxhall -https://twitter.com/sundress Raphael Rugeron - https://twitter.com/goldoraf Jonathon Sampson -https://twitter.com/jonathansampson Arron Schaar - https://github.com/pennyfx Michael Bleigh - https://twitter.com/mbleigh Scott Corgan - https://twitter.com/scottcorgan Projects Reactive Elements -https://github.com/PixelsCommander/ReactiveElements X-Tags Imports - https://github.com/x-tag/x-tag-imports Enyo -http://enyojs.com/ React.js -http://facebook.github.io/react/ Famo.us -http://famo.us/ Chromium Blink -http://www.chromium.org/blink Polymer 0.4.2 -https://github.com/Polymer/polymer/releases/tag/0.4.2 Brick 2.0 -http://brick.mozilla.io/ X-Tags -http://www.x-tags.org/ Polymer -https://www.polymer-project.org/ Bosonic -https://bosonic.github.io/ Vulcanize - https://github.com/polymer/vulcanize generator-element -https://github.com/webcomponents/generator-element Firefox OS - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/os/ web-component-tester -https://github.com/Polymer/web-component-tester Topeka -https://github.com/polymer/topeka Jquery UI -http://jqueryui.com/ Components core-a11ykeys -https://github.com/Polymer/core-a11y-keys core-list -https://github.com/Polymer/core-list core-animated-pages -https://github.com/Polymer/core-animated-pages Brick Components -http://brick.mozilla.io/v2.0/docs WinJS Polymer Samples -https://github.com/banguero/winjs-polymer-samples core-ajax - https://github.com/polymer/core-ajax google-map - https://github.com/GoogleWebComponents/google-map core-shared-lib - https://github.com/Polymer/core-shared-lib google-apis - https://github.com/GoogleWebComponents/google-apis core-selector - https://github.com/polymer/core-selector paper-menu-button - https://github.com/Polymer/paper-menu-button paper-tabs - https://github.com/Polymer/paper-tabs paper-elements - https://www.polymer-project.org/docs/elements/paper-elements.html core-signals -https://github.com/Polymer/core-signals