136: Polymer Summit Recap

Summary

This week the crew is joined by Lars Knudsen (@denladeside) and Kenneth Christiansen (@kennethrohde) to talk about the recent Polymer Summit and all of the awesome stuff revealed there. Are web components really ready? Who is using web components? Answers to these questions and more on this week’s episode of the Web Platform Podcast.

This Week in Web News

• YouTube has just had a new UI released which is written in Polymer
• Stenciljs, “The magical, reusable web component generator.” announced at the Polymer Summit appears to be making waves in the Web Component community and we’ve just scheduled a podcast episode with the developers which should be released in the next couple of weeks!
• Node.js has been forked again over complaints of unresponsive leadership. The new project is called Ayo and is already available on GitHub:
• Google has just released a preview for ARCore and WebARCore for AR development on Android and on the web
• Apple has published guidelines for building Augmented Reality Interfaces to aid developers using ARKit
• Since last week four more frameworks have been added to custom-elements-everywhere, a website which scores JavaScript frameworks on their compatibility with Custom Elements. The frameworks what have been added include AngularJS 1.x, CanJS and Dojo 2

Resources

• User interface components for web apps
• All Polymer Summit 2017 talks

Guests

• Lars Knudsen (@denladeside)
• Kenneth Christiansen (@kennethrohde)

Panel

• Danny Blue (@dee_bloo)
• Leon Revill (@revillweb)
• Amal Hussein (@nomadtechie)

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