Polymer in Azure
Having one of my teams looking closer into Polymer, I am looking through the Polymer tutorial today, looking for stumbling blocks ahead of time so that they can be resolved by the time they get there.
First off, if you're behind a corporate firewall, you'll want to make sure that bower can traverse any proxy you might have. You'll need a .bowerrc in your project folder, looking similar to this:
Second off, you cannot test Polymer from your file system - you'll need to serve your resources from a web server.
Provided that you have managed to get things started locally, let's get real - we want to use these components as UI facades to whatever services we might host in the cloud. Fire up Visual Studio and create a Web project. I started a ASP.NET Core project, 'cause that was the shiniest that I had available to me. In my VS solution, I created an elements directory in my wwwroot, pasted in my .bowerrc file in there and opened a console, which I used to install my bower components:
Let's write a component then! It's essentially a mish-mash of the first couple of examples from the Polymer tutorial:
Once that is in place, we're ready to publish our element so that it can be embedded elsewhere:
I created a free tier app service plan, which is more than I need, given the fact that I'm - so far - only serving static content!
Once published, we need to enable CORS so that browsers allows us to embed elements:
With that in place, we can write a simple web page that embeds a polymer element from Azure!
Will it blend? Yes, yes it will:
Have fun!
First off, if you're behind a corporate firewall, you'll want to make sure that bower can traverse any proxy you might have. You'll need a .bowerrc in your project folder, looking similar to this:
Second off, you cannot test Polymer from your file system - you'll need to serve your resources from a web server.
Provided that you have managed to get things started locally, let's get real - we want to use these components as UI facades to whatever services we might host in the cloud. Fire up Visual Studio and create a Web project. I started a ASP.NET Core project, 'cause that was the shiniest that I had available to me. In my VS solution, I created an elements directory in my wwwroot, pasted in my .bowerrc file in there and opened a console, which I used to install my bower components:
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| First Polymer |
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| And then paper-input |
Let's write a component then! It's essentially a mish-mash of the first couple of examples from the Polymer tutorial:
Once that is in place, we're ready to publish our element so that it can be embedded elsewhere:
I created a free tier app service plan, which is more than I need, given the fact that I'm - so far - only serving static content!
Once published, we need to enable CORS so that browsers allows us to embed elements:
With that in place, we can write a simple web page that embeds a polymer element from Azure!
Will it blend? Yes, yes it will:
Have fun!
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