2024-04-08 Web Components Aren’t Framework Components, facet by Katrina Grace

• https://kgscialdone.substack.com/p/web-components-arent-framework-components

• https://github.com/kgscialdone/facet

Web components, on the other hand - or custom elements, as they should properly be called - are new HTML elements with custom behavior attached.

Rather than replacing your HTML by reorganizing it into chunks, custom elements work alongside your existing HTML to encapsulate and simplify localized behaviors.

This allows them to be dropped trivially into any page without wildly restructuring your site around them, since once they’ve been defined, they act exactly like normal HTML elements - you just get to define the special behavior they represent.