Frameworkless Front-End Development: Do You Control Your Dependencies or are They Controlling You?

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F. StrazzulloFrameworkless Front-End Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9351-5_5

5. 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. Chapter 3 showed you 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 set of native APIs. This suite of APIs is called Web Components.

The APIs

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