Create a polymer SDK for Drupal

Created on 30 September 2016, almost 9 years ago

Updated 15 July 2025, about 1 month ago

Why?

To make it easy for front-end developers to create a fully decoupled app without having to write their own integration.

Why polymer?

It works (with polyfill) pretty good across all browsers and most of it can be done by writing only HTML and css.

Example using api-d7 as an example, once GraphQL is ready it can use that as a backend

<link rel="import" href="../bower_components/polymer/polymer.html">
<link rel="import" href="../drupal-app.html">
<link rel="import" href="../drupal-entity.html">

<dom-module id="my-test">
  <template>
    <style include="shared-styles">
      :host {
        display: block;
      }
    </style>

    <div class="card">
      <drupal-app url="https://www.drupal.org/api-d7/"></drupal-app>
      <drupal-entity uuid="2547919" entity-type="node" entity="{{entity}}"></drupal-entity>
      <h2>{{entity.title}}</h2>
      <div>{{entity.body}}></div>
    </div>
  </template>

  <script>
    Polymer({
      is: 'my-test'
    });
  </script>
</dom-module>

🌱 Plan

Status

Postponed

Version

11.0 🔥

Component

theme system

Created by

🇧🇪Belgium attiks

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Comment about 1 month ago →
🇳🇿New Zealand quietone
The core ideas project is deprecated.

The meta issue in #11 is in the core issue queue so I am moving this issue to core.
Comment about 1 month ago →
🇺🇸United States cosmicdreams Minneapolis/St. Paul
In addition the natural successor for this idea would be to retarget for something like Lit. Polymer is long since dead.
Comment about 1 month ago →
🇬🇧United Kingdom longwave UK
Given the speed of the JavaScript ecosystem I think any attempt to support something like this is likely better off in contrib, unless there is a clear winner that we could support in core - right now I assume that doesn't exist.

Anyone is free to create such a contrib module, and if it gains traction it may be possible to move it to core eventually. Until then I'm closing this issue as won't fix.

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