Will web components revolutionize the web?

02/03/2023 38 min
Will web components revolutionize the web?

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In this episode we discuss web components and their potential to revolutionize the web. Web components have been around for a while and aim to provide a standardized way of authoring front-end JavaScript, but they never really took off due to the missing parts of the spec. We explore various types of web components, the issues with JavaScript, and the challenges in picking the right approach to create a web component.Highlights00:00 Intro00:10 Revolutionary or dead?04:30 Why it's not popular yet06:15 61 ways - What's the difference? 07:37 What to do with custom elements?10:10 Extending built-in elements12:01 Browser Support16:36 Example: relative-time 20:08 Benefits25:13 Front-end JavaScript26:52 Customize an element27:47 Can you expose APIs?30:44 A step to bring Frontend and Backend togetherLinksFlynt: https://flyntwp.com/webcomponents.org: https://www.webcomponents.org/Browser support: https://caniuse.com/?search=custom%20elementsRelative-time element: https://github.com/github/relative-time-elementMore from BleechBlog Posts (WordPress Development)Flynt (WordPress Starter Theme)VRTs (Visual Tests for WordPress)Siegfried, deploy! (YouTube Channel)