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Why did Google create Polymer? Google isn't using it. This is almost the same 'problem' with "AngularJS by Google", it's almost never used by Google.

Edit: The reason I like React more is the fact that Facebook uses it in a high traffic production setting.

Edit 2: I think the whole Javascript (or framework) fatigue is just a 'transition problem'. Old tools are getting replaced by new tools, causing confusion..




Non-comprehensive list of Google properties and Chrome-team efforts using: https://github.com/Polymer/polymer/wiki/Who's-using-Polymer%...

Obviously doesn't include stuff in the works :)


YouTube Gaming & the new Google Play Music are both built with Polymer, both moderately complex consumer facing sites.


I have been extremely impressed with Google Play Music, I use their web client on a daily basis.

I did not know about YouTube Gaming, it looks very interesting.



Kinda beside the point, and I'm not sure the play store is using the same tech stack as play music. Two different things



I believe people generally mean that Google isn't using it for any of their core products: Gmail, Search, Google+, Photos, YouTube, Google Play, Calendar, Drive, Maps... none are built with Angular.


adwords is not a google core product? the angular team works together with the adwords team


Adwords was not in that list (madewithangular) so I simply supposed it wasn't made with angular. Neither is Analytics, or any of the tools I use from Google.

If Adwords is Angular then that's one big project on Angular (clap clap clap). However, all I ever heard was that they were planning to move to Angular2 on Dart. I wonder how that worked out.

edit: just editing to add that I´m not doubting that Google is using Angular2 in some projects, like their internal CRM (Green Tea or whatever). I simply wanted to point out that it's not used _extensively_ in their main consumer facing sites - the ones you get links to when you click on their apps dropdown menu.


Pfft, Adwords might be responsible the lion's share of Google's 522 billion dollar market valuation, but to call it "core"? That's a bit of a stretch.


Um, that was sarcasm right? You might want to add a /s then.


It's important to note that Google does give it's developers the freedom to choose their own tools. If a team isn't excited about Angular or Polymer, it's not forced on them.

If I was building a webapp that was going to have hundreds of millions of users, I'd think twice about grabbing an off the shelf JS library.


Google is using (or has used) Polymer in Google Music, Santa Tracker, Google I/O Web App, chromestatus.com, and likely a few others I'm forgetting.


Google has been using Angular 1.x for DoubleClick since 2012 (http://angularjs.blogspot.com/2012/06/doubleclick-super-powe...). I think it's fair to say that it's one of their most important products.


Chrome's PDF viewer is written in Polymer


> Javascript (or framework) fatigue is just a 'transition problem'

Exactly, same thing happened early on in Ruby/rails community.




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