Preface

Web Components, for me, began in 2013. I remember that I was working on a fun little Angular v1 side project and nerding out on some aspect of managing CSS and classes that Angular didn’t handle well at the time. I knew I could have easily done what I needed in plain HTML/CSS/JavaScript, but Angular was making it difficult just because what I was doing was a bit off the beaten path.

Around this time, I felt like I was really starting to master Angular, so I wrote a few blog posts around some interesting, nontypical approaches. But this was also when Angular excitement felt like it was waning, and React excitement was just starting.

Honestly, I was disappointed. I took a long look at a cycle I felt trapped in. In the span of just two ...

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