Re:Ask HN: Should I use Polymer for my next project?
by spankalee on Thursday July 23, 2015 @01:18PM
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First, are you using Polymer 1.0? It's much lighter weight than Polymer 0.5.
Second, is this a big project with lots of transitively dependencies? Like ES6 modules, HTML imports encourages more granular files that can be referenced and loaded individually. With HTTP/1 this can cause slowdowns as you hit the browser's request limit. HTTP/2 loads a bunch of small files significantly faster. For production we recommend the `vulcanize` tool which concatenates all HTML imports into one file for fast loading.
If you are using 1.0, do you have an example that shows the 2 second freeze? That shouldn't be happening.
Second, is this a big project with lots of transitively dependencies? Like ES6 modules, HTML imports encourages more granular files that can be referenced and loaded individually. With HTTP/1 this can cause slowdowns as you hit the browser's request limit. HTTP/2 loads a bunch of small files significantly faster. For production we recommend the `vulcanize` tool which concatenates all HTML imports into one file for fast loading.
If you are using 1.0, do you have an example that shows the 2 second freeze? That shouldn't be happening.