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Re:Angular 2 versus React by Kwastie on Monday January 04, 2016 @02:00PM (#10837649)
Why did Google create Polymer? Google isn't using it. This is almost the same 'problem' with "AngularJS by Google", it's almost never used by Google.

Edit: The reason I like React more is the fact that Facebook uses it in a high traffic production setting.

Edit 2: I think the whole Javascript (or framework) fatigue is just a 'transition problem'. Old tools are getting replaced by new tools, causing confusion..

Re:Angular 2 versus React by ebidel on Monday January 04, 2016 @04:10PM (#10838636)
Non-comprehensive list of Google properties and Chrome-team efforts using: https://github.com/Polymer/polymer/wiki/Who's-using-Polymer%...

Obviously doesn't include stuff in the works :)

Re:Angular 2 versus React by sehr on Monday January 04, 2016 @02:15PM (#10837769)
YouTube Gaming & the new Google Play Music are both built with Polymer, both moderately complex consumer facing sites.
Re:Angular 2 versus React by ihsw on Monday January 04, 2016 @02:23PM (#10837822)
I have been extremely impressed with Google Play Music, I use their web client on a daily basis.

I did not know about YouTube Gaming, it looks very interesting.

Re:Angular 2 versus React by mkawia on Monday January 04, 2016 @11:36PM (#10841216)
Re:Angular 2 versus React by sehr on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @01:28PM (#10844985)
Kinda beside the point, and I'm not sure the play store is using the same tech stack as play music. Two different things
Re:Angular 2 versus React by debaserab2 on Monday January 04, 2016 @02:18PM (#10837792)
Re:Angular 2 versus React by eyko on Monday January 04, 2016 @04:24PM (#10838750)
I believe people generally mean that Google isn't using it for any of their core products: Gmail, Search, Google+, Photos, YouTube, Google Play, Calendar, Drive, Maps... none are built with Angular.
Re:Angular 2 versus React by doczoidberg on Monday January 04, 2016 @06:08PM (#10839477)
adwords is not a google core product? the angular team works together with the adwords team
Re:Angular 2 versus React by eyko on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @09:20AM (#10843334)
Adwords was not in that list (madewithangular) so I simply supposed it wasn't made with angular. Neither is Analytics, or any of the tools I use from Google.

If Adwords is Angular then that's one big project on Angular (clap clap clap). However, all I ever heard was that they were planning to move to Angular2 on Dart. I wonder how that worked out.

edit: just editing to add that I´m not doubting that Google is using Angular2 in some projects, like their internal CRM (Green Tea or whatever). I simply wanted to point out that it's not used _extensively_ in their main consumer facing sites - the ones you get links to when you click on their apps dropdown menu.

Re:Angular 2 versus React by jbigelow76 on Monday January 04, 2016 @11:11PM (#10841134)
Pfft, Adwords might be responsible the lion's share of Google's 522 billion dollar market valuation, but to call it "core"? That's a bit of a stretch.
Re:Angular 2 versus React by rjayatilleka on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @01:01AM (#10841526)
Um, that was sarcasm right? You might want to add a /s then.
Re:Angular 2 versus React by johnkpush on Monday January 04, 2016 @06:34PM (#10839665)
It's important to note that Google does give it's developers the freedom to choose their own tools. If a team isn't excited about Angular or Polymer, it's not forced on them.

If I was building a webapp that was going to have hundreds of millions of users, I'd think twice about grabbing an off the shelf JS library.

Re:Angular 2 versus React by Zikes on Monday January 04, 2016 @02:44PM (#10837966)
Google is using (or has used) Polymer in Google Music, Santa Tracker, Google I/O Web App, chromestatus.com, and likely a few others I'm forgetting.
Re:Angular 2 versus React by grumblestumble on Monday January 04, 2016 @03:55PM (#10838515)
Google has been using Angular 1.x for DoubleClick since 2012 (http://angularjs.blogspot.com/2012/06/doubleclick-super-powe...). I think it's fair to say that it's one of their most important products.
Re:Angular 2 versus React by butabah on Monday January 04, 2016 @02:13PM (#10837753)
Chrome's PDF viewer is written in Polymer
Re:Angular 2 versus React by dev360 on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @03:13AM (#10842003)
> Javascript (or framework) fatigue is just a 'transition problem'

Exactly, same thing happened early on in Ruby/rails community.