🆚 Headless UI vs. Polymer

Type

Website component
Website component

About

Headless UI is an open-source library of unstyled, fully accessible UI components designed for React and Vue applications, with close integration with Tailwind CSS.

It provides interactive components such as dialogs, menus, listboxes, comboboxes, tabs, switches, and popovers, implements keyboard navigation and ARIA accessibility patterns, and supplies only the behavior and accessibility logic so developers can apply any design system, CSS framework, or custom styling.

Polymer is a legacy open-source JavaScript library created by Google for building components based on Web Components standards.

The library introduced declarative custom elements, data binding, shadow DOM helpers, and reusable component packaging, and later evolved into the Lit project focused on lightweight and faster component development.

Headquarters

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Mountain View, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source

Categories

Components › Rank #10
Components › Rank #3
UI Frameworks › Rank #12
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #63
Legacy › Rank #12

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Polymer component technology is 5 times more popular than Headless UI.
Total websites

Market share

Components

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Polymer is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Headless UI is more popular in China, Russia, and Slovakia.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Japan
Brazil
Canada
Australia
France
India
Switzerland

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Polymer is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while Headless UI is more commonly used on online shopping, Internet services, and blogs and wiki sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Sports
Internet Services
Travel
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Health

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#1,167
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Name
Rank
#1,184
#3,213
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See also

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