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Raise freelance price for hard to find skillset such as Polymer and webcomponents?

Andreas Galster on June 03, 2018

We're currently trying to find our first gigs on upwork, I'm super strong in Polymer (webcomponents) and frontend in general. It's a very rare skil...
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Meghan (she/her)

While I lean towards yes, I also wanted to point out that Custom Elements still has very sparing browser support caniuse.com/#feat=custom-elementsv1

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Andreas Galster

Absolutely, but if someone is looking for a Polymer dev, why not :).

Btw, Firefox is releasing shadow DOM and custom elements in October, so only Edge is left out soon (which you can polyfill technically, although with bad performance hits)

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Andreas Galster

BTW the light green bar does not mean it's buggy btw, it's just an improved version of custom elements.

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Meghan (she/her)

the light green represents missing features from the spec and FF has them behind a flag

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John Teague

That's what polyfills are for, and they're slowly being replaced as specs are adopted by browser vendors. FF just activated ShadowDOM support in their nightly build. Webcomponents moved to NPM module imports, which cleared a big hurdle, and a modified HTML imports spec is still under discussion. So, the color chart doesn't really tell the whole story.

In answer to the fee increase, I already have, and, if anything, I'm turning away work on Polymer PWAs and headless projects.

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Darryl D.

To some degree, you need to find a fit. If people aren't looking for polymer, you cant force them to use it or seek it.

I would instead look at what is currently out there on freelance sites to get a better idea of what type of requests are paying the price you want.

I too am a UI dev and I almost never hear polymer brought up anymore. It's angular/vue/react/ember. Which changes this situation to look at how things are opposed to how they should be or how you want them to be.