Frameworkless Front-End Development: Do You Control Your Dependencies Or Are They Controlling You?

© Francesco Strazzullo 2019

F. StrazzulloFrameworkless Front-End Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4967-3_4

4. Web Components

Francesco Strazzullo¹ 

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TREVISO, Treviso, Italy

 

All the major front-end frameworks that developers use today have something in common. They all use components as basic blocks for building the UI. In Chapter 2, you saw how to create a component registry based on pure functions. On (almost) all modern browsers, it’s possible to create components for your web applications with a suite of native APIs known as web components.

The APIs

Web components consist of three main technologies that let developers build and publish reusable UI components.

• HTML templates. The <template> tag is useful if you want to keep content ...