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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 qwertyuiop924 »

Congrats on the wedding, but this site just shows me that I was right not to invest in polymer. On android chrome, 5 second pageload, which seems to be taking place after the download, followed by laggy animation? Yuck.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is why I prefer Mithril, or at least React. Or heck, even the horrific, broken, awful mess that is angular 1 is better than this, for crying out loud!

I know that Polymer may make things easier as a designer, but newsflash: the end user doesn't give a damn. They want a fast, responsive, stylish site. And Polymer just isn't there.

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

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Post by robdodson »

I think you can bring the time to initial interactive experience way down by using Polymer CLI. Looking at wedding-app.html it looks like it's loading a lot of elements which aren't on screen yet.

Take a look at the app-drawer-template example and note the line that lazy loads element definitions when pages change: https://github.com/Polymer/app-drawer-template/blob/master/s...

If you use the CLI you can create a polymer.json file that lets you fragment up your site: https://github.com/Polymer/app-drawer-template/blob/master/p... This way you'll create separate vulcanized bundles and you can lazy load them right when the user clicks on the section, hopefully improving that first load experience.

Ignore the haters on HN. Congrats on the wedding!!!

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

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Post by needcaffeine »

LogicX wrote: post #37
needcaffeine wrote: post #32

Hey— the wedding is less than 2 hours away from my house! That's...interesting.

Yeah, 45min from me in Myrtle Beach, SC - small world!

You know, I didn't realize Myrtle Beach was so close to Wilmington, as someone who's never been. (I'm in Raleigh)
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