Martin Heller
Contributing Writer

Why you need to use Polymer for Web development

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Feb 26, 20161 min

Easy, clean, and powerful, Polymer enhances basic HTML for building websites

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Basic HTML is fine if all you want to do is make a superminimalist website. For enhanced functionality, you can turn to the myriad JavaScript libraries, but wouldn’t it be better to have those functions directly in the browser?

Enter Polymer. The library lets you easily create components that can in turn be used as though they were HTML tags.

In the above video, InfoWorld’s Martin Heller takes you through the basics of Polymer, including how to design your own components or deploy one of the many prebuilt options.

Martin Heller

Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2010. From 2010 to August of 2012, Martin was vice president of technology and education at Alpha Software. From March 2013 to January 2014, he was chairman of Tubifi, maker of a cloud-based video editor, having previously served as CEO.

Martin is the author or co-author of nearly a dozen PC software packages and half a dozen Web applications. He is also the author of several books on Windows programming. As a consultant, Martin has worked with companies of all sizes to design, develop, improve, and/or debug Windows, web, and database applications, and has performed strategic business consulting for high-tech corporations ranging from tiny to Fortune 100 and from local to multinational.

Martin’s specialties include programming languages C++, Python, C#, JavaScript, and SQL, and databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Google Cloud Spanner, CockroachDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Couchbase. He writes about software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning, contributing technology analyses, explainers, how-to articles, and hands-on reviews of software development tools, data platforms, AI models, machine learning libraries, and much more.

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