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Show HN: I built my wedding website using Polymer

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Re: Show HN: I built my wedding website using Polymer

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Post by caleblloyd »

egypturnash wrote: post #34

Is it really supposed to have everything on the front page left-aligned in very wide white boxes? Because that's what I get on Safari. http://imgur.com/AnsXVoY

Hmm, that's odd. Didn't test Safari on Desktop, thanks for pointing it out. Maybe a problem with the way I'm using the iron-grid component for grid layout.

Re: Show HN: I built my wedding website using Polymer

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Post by js2 »

caleblloyd wrote: post #42
egypturnash wrote: post #34

Is it really supposed to have everything on the front page left-aligned in very wide white boxes? Because that's what I get on Safari. http://imgur.com/AnsXVoY

Hmm, that's odd. Didn't test Safari on Desktop, thanks for pointing it out. Maybe a problem with the way I'm using the iron-grid component for grid layout.

Same issue with Mobile Safari on an iPad mini. Congrats. Wilmington in late Nov should be nice. I'm reminded of a book I read a few years back - https://www.amazon.com/Off-Season-Discovering-America-Winter...

Re: Show HN: I built my wedding website using Polymer

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Post by caleblloyd »

caleblloyd wrote: post #12
awl130 wrote: post #8

you spelled her last name wrong. also accommodations

Hahaha you are right, I'll have to fix that when I get home. Or maybe I'll tell Maggie to submit a pull request

Pull Request merged- thanks! Unfortunately it wasn't before Maggie's Mom caught wind of my misspelling: https://github.com/caleblloyd/polymer-wedding/pull/1

Re: Show HN: I built my wedding website using Polymer

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Post by caleblloyd »

sideproject wrote: post #46

Congrats! So what do you think? About using Polymer I mean. :) Would love to get some insight as to how the experience was learning and building something in Polymer. I haven't heard much of Polymer lately.

Web Components: I think that web components are absolutely the best way to program a web application. Keeping the CSS, HTML, and JavaScript within the boundaries of a component works wonders for organization. It was such a relief coming from the Angular 1 world I usually work in.

Polymer: The polymer elements that Google provides are good. The polymer-cli is fantastic, it just works and I didn't have to configure gulp/grunt/browserify/webpack at all. The project needs no node modules, all dependencies come from bower! Non-google custom elements out there lack robust browser support and I find that I don't trust them out of the box.

Ecosystem: support for web components has come a ways in the past couple years but still has a ways to go. Chrome natively supports web components but every other non-blink browser uses polyfills, which slows things down. Firefox and WebKit are implementing part of the web components spec, so hopefully it'll get better soon.

It's an exciting technology that is very pleasant to code in. Learning the ropes and building the entire site took 20 hours, most of that was dealing with nitpicky browser support issues with scrolling and animation effects. I hope it continues to gains traction and I would definitely use it again!

Re: Show HN: I built my wedding website using Polymer

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Post by erlehmann_ »

leesalminen wrote: post #35
erlehmann_ wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That does not answer my question. Is there a feature that absolutely needs JS on the page? If so, what is it?

I think you're missing the point. Of course there's nothing this site can't do without JS. It's a side project to learn a new framework.

I might be. I just do not understand why one should use more complex and less accessible web technologies if it does not lead to new functionality. When I learn a new framework, it usually is so I can do things that I could not do without.
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