Let’s build some apps with Polymer! - Chrome Dev Summit 2014 (Rob Dodson)

This talk will cover what it takes to build a single page app in Polymer. Rob will demonstrate how to quickly scaffold the structure of an application by leveraging Material Design elements, explore best practices around lazy loading elements to keep our app speedy, and also touch upon the tools we can use to debug and test our app.

[@phidias51]

As mentioned in the video, you can find the code for this project here: github.com/robdodson/contacts-app

[@KonradGpl]

Greatings from Poland! I've just started downloading Android 5.0. I'm so excited!

[@PetrZdarsky]

Wow the offline functionality looks amazing!

[@Zakher]

You're the best Rob. I just have a question about the paper-dropdown element, is there another file I have to import other than paper-dropdown to activate the animation? I followed all the code till 6:36 and everything looks alright except the drop down menu that does not appear when I click on the button. I added more elements inside the menu button I'm sure it inside the dropdown menu. I just couldn't get the dropdown menu to appear. Should I style that with CSS using the dropdown class?

[@cookiethief]

Around 22:53, Rob says "a server that supports gzip". The close caption wasn't able to catch that.

[@RainerDreyer]

Hey ***** Thanks for these videos! (I've watched most of the Polycasts, too.) It would be really great if you could make one about composing a transition. You're using custom transitions here at 17:30, but it's not clear how you made them. Thanks a lot!

[@WilliamSnale]

is it true that you can do that measurement stuff on dom-ready? I'm pretty sure I did that

[@kylo365]

I noticed in your script at 20:39 that it ends in instead of just plain . What does this do?

[@noorsyyed]

***** great presentation, i found it very interesting so decided to tried my hands on it. i have a question, how the fab is fixed though the list scrolls

[@noorsyyed]

Thanks +rob btw with spects u look like tobey maguire and without like Remus lupin of Harry Potter

[@wobble_cat]

Hey Rob, have you thought about making the series of Software Production using Polymer?

[@LarsRyeJeppesen]

Anything speaking against using Polymer with AngularJS? Seems like a good match. The binding syntaxes collide but must be solveable...

[@LarsRyeJeppesen]

Rob Dodson Yeah you're right.. I was looking for playing with Angular 1.3 and Polymer as is, but it's just not worth the hazzle right now... too many workarounds needed.

[@davidhg117]

i am very new to web page programming and id like to ask something, i am using google web designer and did all the code as you show it in the video, but for some weird reason it´s not looking as yours, for example the paper elements look just as a squared plain box, any help?

[@davidhg117]

Rob Dodson looool i just checked out the code and in fact that was the problem, thanks now my app is running in sick material design :)

[@ThreeBooleans]

Nice wallpaper at 9:14 :)

[@achuth_hadnoor]

can i know how to work on chrome editor for polymer!

[@vzhen]

+rob_dodson any idea where it the flatiron director component documentation? I can't find it

[@HumanoidTyphoon91]

I am a newbie as well, and I just didn't get it as a whole. Isn't the point of using Polymer is creating responsive WEB applications quickly using those elements? Then why didn't he show us the how it works in a desktop browser?

[@HumanoidTyphoon91]

Rob Dodson Oh great, and thank you for taking the time to answer my question, since I watched that video I watched Polymer videos every night and I am about to explore the potential of it, keep up the good work!

[@ingusmant]

Hey Rob have you ever used Enyo.js? because stuff like the responsive scaling really feels familiar

[@ingusmant]

***** I knew it! nice to see those guys are back in action, enyo.js was really ahead of its time

[@DrRobrez]

Does core-list work with varying row height yet?

[@DrRobrez]

... 2 seconds later I get to the part where he says that yes, it does. fml

[@DamianMontero]

Any link to the code examples?

[@DamianMontero]

Found it at the 26:39 mark. Thank you github.com/robdodson/contacts-app

[@j.wwolthuis8408]

where can I download Polymer

[@MaxWilliam]

J.W Wolthuis Couldn't you just google it? www.polymer-project.org

[@sumon_sen]

Just check out the polymer project website, their documentation is really very good.

[@DrRobrez]

Ily, k?