Polymer 1.0 is here! Lean mean and production ready. On episode 46 The Web Platform Podcast talks to a Proverbial Packed Panel of Professional Polymer People. Polymer has grown a ton since its developer preview and has been streamlined for performance. It's a a big show with a panel of both GDE’s and members of the Polymer team to get a better idea of just how this project has grown and why Polymer and web components as a whole are important for the modern and future web platform.

In this episode, we talk with Rob Dodson, developer evangelist for the Polymer Project, about the history of Polymer. We also get to to hear Rob's thoughts on the future of the web and the role Polymer will play in it.

Andrew Rota & Denis Radin talk about the ways you can leverage both Web Components & React.js together in a symbiotic fashion. Denis, creator of Reactive Elements, starts us off explaining how his library came to be and why he chose to marry these two technologies in his work. Andrew, who spoke at ReactConf 2015 talks about his experiences with Web Components & React as well.

In this episode, the Polymer Podcast panel talks with Taylor Savage, product manager for the Polymer Project, about the announcements at Google I/O and Polymer 1.0. We learn about the Polymer starter kit, the new web component catalogs, and how the polymer team gets things done!

Front-end expert John Rogerson offers some practical use cases and draws analogies to web dev approaches we are all already familiar with. John further discusses the pros of web components (modularity, extensibility), the cons (new technology, undefined standards, accessibility) and how they may reflect the future of web development.

Carl and Richard talk to Cory House about the web component specification and what that will look like in your modern web development. As Cory explains, the key idea behind web components is to provide a framework for Javascript library extensibility that doesn't force you to own the library yourself.