Build an Autocomplete component with Polymer

The latest edition of Web Designer carries a tutorial I made for creating an autocomplete component with Polymer. It's a lot easier than you might think!

Now I must admit, when writing this I wasn't overly familiar with Polymer myself. If you're in a similar boat yourself, here's a little primer.

Polymer is a framework built by Google. It's built to help utilise the features of web components with added helpful features you find in frameworks nowadays like data-binding and lifecycle callbacks.

In this tutorial, we make an autocomplete component to easily search names of people. The idea being you can just add in the app-autocomplete component, give it a data source and you're ready to go. It's reusable, flexible and above all else easy to make.

If you're interested in Polymer at all, there's a free 2-day web summit over in Tobacco Dock in London to help you get up to speed and get all the best features out of it. There's a lot more information up for grabs there than I could ever fit in a 5 page tutorial!