Creating app using Polymer Starter Kit

Introduction#

Polymer Starter Kit is an excellent solution to start building Progressive Web Apps. It offers a responsive material design User Interface, Page Routing, Offline-first service.

Syntax#

Polymer: Command for initiating polymer cli
Polymer init: Presents a list of templates to choose to build your element/app
npm: Initiates the Node.js Package Manager CLI interface
npm install: Installs a package
npm install -g: Installs a package globally on your system. Useful for CLI tools

Installing Polymer Starter Kit

Ensure that you have Polymer CLI installed in your system globally. If not, open your command line/terminal interface and run this command: npm install -g polymer-cli

Note: If you’re an Ubuntu user, you may have to prefix the above code with sudo keyword.

After Polymer CLI installs, run this command

cd [YOUR DIRECTORY IN WHICH YOU WANT TO START YOUR PROJECT]

polymer init

You will be given 4 options. Use arrows keys to go to the 4th one i.e. starter-kit. Hit Enter key.

All the required files will be downloaded in your selected directory.