jakelazaroff.com
January 30, 2024
I don’t see web components on their own as a huge productivity boon for individual websites. Once you’ve bought into a particular set of technologies, it makes sense to use it for as much as you can. If you have a React app, you’d be justifiably skeptical of introducing a second way to build components! Rather, the biggest benefits I see are collective, cutting across the industry as a whole. I think web components can make the entire web more accessible. They have the potential to unify currently fragmented communities, including various JavaScript frameworks and those who avoid them.
Source: jakelazaroff.com
Jake Lazaro’s makes the case that Web Components aren’t here to replace your framework of choice, but to above all help interoperability across frameworks.