Localhost set up Polymer 1.0

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I am trying to set up polymer 1.0 on my Apple Mac.

I have been able to install Git, Node JS, Atom and Bower fine but I am not getting anything on any local host.

I have followed instructions on Polymer Project website but when running the polymer serve command in terminal in project directory I get nothing at localhost:8080/components/icon-toggle/demo/

I have attached the response I get from the polymer serve command in terminal. I have also tried to navigate to the link shown in the image but get a page not found error.

Quite new to this so any help is largely appreciated.

[web-padawan]

What kind of project do you have? See docs for element project and application project. You'll need to use other project templates for 1.x though, see this issue.

/cc @arthurevans

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I would like to set up an elements project I believe. I need to use polymer 1.0

The polymer programming I have done so far has been using HTML files and importing bower components at the start of each document then calling an instance of that component.

[vaffonso]

Probably port 8080 is already in use, so polymer serve is using 8081.
Try hitting localhost:8081

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Returns "not found"

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update: If I navigate to
http://localhost:8081/polymer-first-elements/demo/index.html
I get a white screen with some bower element errors (see attachment)
I'm fairly sure I have installed bower correctly (see attachment)
Again all help appareciated thank you

[vaffonso]

Looks like port 8081 since you're having errors
If you're following google codelabs then you have a wrong path
localhost:8081/components/icon-toggle/demo/
as per this doc says
https://www.polymer-project.org/1.0/docs/start/reusableelements.html#local-dependencies

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That produces the right page. Looks like Polymer serve is working now thank you all!
What is the best way of setting up a local host to create my own custom elements? Previously I have run a run.bat file with some Go programming code to set up a local host with an index.html file

Can I set something up that will work in a similar way?

Thanks again

[vaffonso]

If I get it right, you can follow the same structure, in components folder, to build your own component. Then you can publish or wrap it for your own use.
https://www.webcomponents.org/publish

[dfreedm]

It sounds like you got the help you were looking for so I'm going to close this issue.