Install Polymer 2.x - Polymer Project

If you're familiar with Polymer and just want to get started with the new release, you're in the right place! If you'd like an introduction to the Polymer project and web components:

Polymer is distributed via the Bower package manager.

To create an application template and install Polymer automatically, you can use the Polymer CLI.

To start a project from scratch, you can install Polymer with Bower.

Use the Polymer CLI to create an application template and install Polymer

The Polymer CLI requires Node.js, npm, Git and Bower. For full installation instructions, see the Polymer CLI documentation.

Install the Polymer CLI.
```
npm install -g polymer-cli
```
Create a test folder for Polymer 2.0, and switch to it.
```
mkdir polymer-20-test
cd polymer-20-test
```
Initialize your project.
```
polymer init
```
Select polymer-2-application.
Serve your project.
```
polymer serve
```

Install Polymer from Bower

Install Bower.
```
npm install -g bower
```
Install the Polymer CLI

The Polymer CLI requires Node.js and npm as well as Bower. For full installation instructions, see the Polymer CLI documentation.
```
npm install -g polymer-cli
```
Install the latest Polymer 2.0 release from bower
```
bower install Polymer/polymer#^2.0.0
```
Create a test index.html file, and add the following in the <head> tag:

<script src="/bower_components/webcomponentsjs/webcomponents-loader.js"></script> to load the polyfills
<link rel="import" href="/bower_components/polymer/polymer.html"> to import Polymer

Import and use whichever elements you’d like.
Serve your project.
```
polymer serve
```

For information on building your project for production, see the documentation on building Polymer applications for production.