chaplin vs Polymer

chaplin

HTML5 application architecture using Backbone.js (by chaplinjs)

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Polymer

Our original Web Component library. (by Polymer)

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chaplin		Polymer
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-	Mentions	4
2,862	Stars	22,042
-	Growth	0.2%
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
CoffeeScript	Language	HTML
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

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chaplin

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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 chaplin and Polymer you can also consider the following projects:

react-native - A framework for building native applications using React

Svelte - Cybernetically enhanced web apps

Meteor JS - Meteor, the JavaScript App Platform

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

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

riot - Simple and elegant component-based UI library

React - The library for web and native user interfaces.

inferno - :fire: An extremely fast, React-like JavaScript library for building modern user interfaces

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

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.