Ask HN: Is 2022 the year of web components? [front end web dev]

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4 years ago

I've been out of the loop for awhile, but back in 2017 I was a big fan of Polymer by Google (web components utilizing shadow DOM.) At the time there was a feeling you didn't need frameworks if you had components you could use like html tags.

In 2021 I got back into it:

I took a look at Blazor. Ok, that's just web components, where the file name is the component name.

I took a look at Svelte. Ok, that just web components with reactivity. Svelte looks like the inspiration for Blazor.

I took a look at Angular. They have components now or did they always have components?

I took a look at React. Look, they're starting to use Polymer type components inside React components.

I took a look at web components, not longer called Polymer it seems, and wow, they've made a lot of progress. Salesforce.com is a big user (a company I respect for their tech) and Google itself is a big user. Google says Web Components are everywhere and I'm using them a lot without knowing it.

So have Shadow DOM components arrived?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components

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