65: Strand Web Components

The Web Platform Podcast

Summary

MediaMath (@MediaMath) has created an open source project built on top of Web Components & Polymer (@Polymer) called Strand. It was created for their internal web product Terminal One but is available and easy to get on Github. Daniel Lasky (@aerolith), Justin Moore (@jcmmit), & Anthony Koerber (@DrDooganMeister) chat with us about the pains of migrating from Polymer 0.5 to 1.0 as well as what it has been like to drive an open source Web Components library with Polymer Elements ranging from basic buttons to complex grids. Check out Strand’s documentation for further detail

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October 20 | 10:00am PT | Banfield, Lombardo, & Wax

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Resources

• MediaMath Strand Library - https://mediamath.github.io/strand/ http://strand.mediamath.com
• Strand on Github - https://github.com/MediaMath/strand/
• Strand Docs -http://mediamath.github.io/strand/article_getting_started.html
• Polymer Project - https://www.polymer-project.org/1.0/
• MediaMath - http://www.mediamath.com/
• Backbone.js - http://backbonejs.org/
• Steal.js - http://stealjs.com/
• How should I name my element? - http://webcomponents.org/articles/how-should-i-name-my-element/

Panelists

• Erik Isaksen (@eisaksen) - Front End Development Lead at Deloitte Digital & Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies
• Justin Ribeiro (@justinribeiro) - Wearables & HTML5 Google Developer Expert & Partner at Stickman Ventures or random person who keeps finding Hangout link. You decide