在聚合物入门页面，我们看到了一个聚合物的例子:
<html>
<head>
<!-- 1. Shim missing platform features -->
<script src="polymer-all/platform/platform.js"></script>
<!-- 2. Load a component -->
<link rel="import" href="x-foo.html">
</head>
<body>
<!-- 3. Declare the component by its tag. -->
<x-foo></x-foo>
</body>
</html>
你会注意到<x-foo></x-foo>是由platform.js和x-foo.html定义的。
看起来这相当于AngularJS中的指令模块:
angular.module('xfoo', [])
.controller('X-Foo', ['$scope',function($scope) {
$scope.text = 'hey hey!';
})
.directive('x-foo', function() {
return {
restrict: 'EA',
replace: true,
controller: 'X-Foo',
templateUrl: '/views/x-foo.html',
link: function(scope, controller) {
}
};
});
这两者之间有什么区别?
有哪些问题是聚合物解决了，而AngularJS还没有或不会解决的?
将来有计划把Polymer和AngularJS绑定在一起吗?
Angular指令在概念上类似于自定义元素，但它们的实现不使用Web组件api。Angular指令是构建自定义元素的一种方式，但Polymer和Web Components规范是基于标准的方式。
polymer-element:
<polymer-element name="user-preferences" attributes="email">
<template>
<img src="https://secure.user-preferences.com/path/{{userID}}" />
</template>
<script>
Polymer('user-preferences', {
ready: function() {
this.userID= md5(this.email);
}
});
</script>
</polymer>
角指令:
app.directive('user-preferences', ['md5', function() {
return {
restrict: 'E',
link: function(scope, element, attrs) {
scope.userID= md5(attrs.email);
},
template: '<img src="https://secure.user-preferences.com/path/{{userID}}" />'
};
}]);
I think from a practical perspective, in the end the template feature of angular directives, and the web component methodology leveraged by polymer both accomplish the same task. The major differences as I can see it are that polymer leverages web APIs to include bits of HTML, a more syntactically correct, and simplistic way of achieving what Angular does programatically as it renders templates. Polymer is however as has been stated, a small framework for building declarative and interactive templates using components. It is made available for UI design purposes only, and is only supported in the most modern browsers. AngularJS is a complete MVC framework designed to make web applications declarative by use of data bindings, dependencies, and directives. They're two completely different animals. To your question, it seems to me at this point you'll get no major benefit from using polymer over angular, except having dozens of pre built components, however that would still require you to port those over to angular directives. In the future however, as the web APIs become more advanced, web components will completely remove the need to programatically define and build templates as the browser will be able to simply include them in a similar way to how it handles javascript or css files.
