Polymer Tools

Polymer provides a lot of tools for developing, building, and optimizing Polymer elements and apps.

Polymer CLI

Polymer CLI can be used for a lot of things in a Polymer development task.

Install Git

Install an active LTS version of Node.js (4.x or 6.x). How to download Node.js https://www.javatpoint.com/install-nodejs

Install the latest version of Bower.

Install Polymer CLI.

You're all set. Run polymer help to view a list of commands.

polymer help

Polymer CLI is a command-line interface used in Polymer projects. It includes a build pipeline, a boilerplate generator for creating elements and apps, a linter, a development server, and a test runner.

Polymer CLI works with two types of projects:

Elements projects: In an element project, a single element or group of related elements are used in other element or app projects, or distributed on a registry like Bower or NPM. Elements are reusable and organized to be used alongside other elements, so components are referenced outside the project.

Application projects: In an app project, an application is built which contains polymer elements and deployed as a website. Applications are self-contained, organized with components inside the application.