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Chat Application with Polymer - III
This is the 3rd post of the series of posts on an example chat application with Polymer. In the previous posts, we have built a chat application with node.js, replaced standard HTML elements with Polymer components and built our own custom components. more...
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Chat Application with Polymer - II
In my last post, we have built a very basic chat application based on the Socket.IO Chat Application Example. We have used some Polymer elements to demonstrate how to use the custom elements. In this post, I want to focus on the “Polymer Layout Attributes” and then create a new custom element using Polymer. more...
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Chat Application with Polymer - I
As I have mentioned in my last post, I have been experimenting with Web Components and in particular Google’s Polymer library. There is another concept I want to learn and play around; “Real Time Web”. Real Time Web is the term used to describe continuous bidirectional web client/server communication as in web based chat applications and continuously streaming feeds in a social media application without requiring a “Refresh” button. There are various techniques used to provide continuous communication such as “long polling” and “web sockets”. A node.js JavaScript library called Socket.IO provides a high level client/server API for real time functionality while hiding the low level protocols. Instead of focusing any one of the low level protocols, it seems like a good idea to use the Socket.IO if you need real-time behavior in your application. more...
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Web Components
Recently, I have come across with “Web Components” and the phrase caught my attention. Even though the subject is a few years old, since I am mostly developing embedded code and had little experience with the web frontend development, it was new for me. more...
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