Thursday, 15 September 2016

Pluralsight - Getting Started with Polymer

I manage a UI team who are undergoing an upgrade to use Polymer. I've read up on the topic a bit and read about web components in all their magical goodness but wanted to spend a little time doing something hands on as well as scoping out potentially good training resources for people in other teams and that's when I stumbled upon  Bill Stavroulakis and his Getting Started with Polymer course on pluralsight.

It's a really fun course. It is for beginners, which I feel I am, and skims the service but it really does cover all the important stuff in a pretty fast paced way. Bill is a great tutor on it because he gives off a really gentle and relaxed vibe. I think it's exactly what you want when you're new to a technology and some of the concepts.

Lots of great examples. Explanations always forthcoming and introduced me to Plunker which is a really interesting site.

The only downside I would say is the course isn't really < 2hrs. There's a lot of 50 second videos with links. It's great though so it's not really a complaint but budget a little longer to get through it.


Being the great bunch of lads that he is, Bill has already got a follow up course that builds on this introduction. I'll be hopefully giving that a go very shortly.

If you have a pluralsight account and want to take a look at the leading web component library I think this is a fantastic place to start.


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