Web Components are not Framework Components — and That’s Okay

October 3, 2024

Frankly, if framework authors were sold the idea that web components would be a compile target for their frameworks, and then got today’s WC APIs, I understand their frustration. Worse yet, if every time they tried to explain that this sucks as a compile target they were told “no you just don’t get it”, heck I’d feel gaslit too! Web Components are still far from being a good compile target for all framework components, but that is not a prerequisite for them being useful. They simply solve different problems.

Source: Web Components are not Framework Components — and That’s Okay • Lea Verou

Lea Verou with tremendous roundup of the debate du jour about web components that we’ve covered recently.