Aurelia 1 vs Polymer

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Aurelia 1		Polymer
	Project
-	Mentions	4
11,745	Stars	22,042
-0.0%	Growth	0.2%
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
TypeScript	Language	HTML
MIT License	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Aurelia 1

Posts with mentions or reviews of Aurelia 1. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Aurelia 1 yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Polymer

Posts with mentions or reviews of Polymer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-16.

Does Google use Angular for all of its projects? Especially Youtube?
6 projects | /r/webdev | 16 Mar 2022

Oh, and I know that Wappalyzer detects that Youtube uses Polymer, but here's the thing if you go to the Polymer docs it clearly says "The Polymer library is in maintenance mode. For new development, we recommend Lit."
Is Angular Dead in 2022?
5 projects | dev.to | 24 Jan 2022

Polymer - DEAD Recently
Getting Started with PolymerJS and LitElement
2 projects | dev.to | 1 Sep 2021

It is an open-source JavaScript library based upon Web Components. It is developed by Google. Polymer helps us to create custom elements for building web applications. It's much easier and faster to create custom elements that work like DOM elements.
Why is the CSS code of popular web apps (YouTube, Facebook) included inside the index.html file?
1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 25 Jul 2021

At least for the YouTube example, if memory serves, they often use Polymer web components for page templating and layout. When you style components through these, oftentimes the CSS styling ends up inline on the page the components are included in.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Aurelia 1 and Polymer you can also consider the following projects:

Vue.js - This is the repo for Vue 2. For Vue 3, go to https://github.com/vuejs/core

Svelte - Cybernetically enhanced web apps

React - The library for web and native user interfaces.

Preact - ⚛️ Fast 3kB React alternative with the same modern API. Components & Virtual DOM.

Mithril.js - A JavaScript Framework for Building Brilliant Applications

riot - Simple and elegant component-based UI library

knockout - Knockout makes it easier to create rich, responsive UIs with JavaScript

Aurelia 2 - Aurelia 2, a standards-based, front-end framework designed for high-performing, ambitious applications.

NativeScript - ⚡ Empowering JavaScript with native platform APIs. ✨ Best of all worlds (TypeScript, Swift, Objective C, Kotlin, Java). Use what you love ❤️ Angular, Capacitor, Ionic, React, Solid, Svelte, Vue with: iOS (UIKit, SwiftUI), Android (View, Jetpack Compose), Dart (Flutter) and you name it compatible.