The document discusses how Polymer can be used to build web components. It explains that Polymer provides primitives like templates, shadow DOM, and custom elements to define your own HTML elements. It then demonstrates how to build a simple "alert-banner" element with Polymer by defining a template, styles, and prototype. The element can be used on a page by adding content between its opening and closing tags. Finally, it discusses how Polymer elements can be combined to build complete applications and packaged for production use.