If you know me, you know how convinced I am that Web Components is the future of how we build components in the browser; not React, not Angular, and not Vue. With that said, Polymer is just one vision of how we can fill in the various parts of Web Components and make them easier to build. But it's a good one and I've used it myself successfully in a couple of projects now.
A few months back, the Polymer team announced that Polymer 3 wouldn't be a huge rewrite of version 2 as much as it would be a repackaging. For example, they were going to abandon HTML Imports in favor of using NPM and webpack to handle JavaScript modules. At that time they dropped a really early preview of version 3 which did that and just the other day they released a new one. Here are some links to both of the relevant blog posts as well as a link to a getting started blog post kind of buried in the middle of the first blog post. I wanted to pluck it out in case you never looked at the one from last August.
Polymer 3.0: New year, new preview
Polymer 3.0 preview: npm and ES6 Modules
Hands-on with the Polymer 3.0 preview - You'll definitely want to pay attention to this one whether you read the one above or not. Otherwise you won't have a lot of getting started information. The two blog articles mainly talk about the whys and what has changed over time.
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