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Miguel Laginha
August 29, 2019
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Intro to Web Components
Not so short presentation for the Brighton webdev meetup on web components.
Miguel Laginha
August 29, 2019
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Transcript
INTRO TO WEBCOMPONENTS
ABOUT ME ▸ Miguel Laginha ▸ Apereo Foundation ▸ Open
Academic Environment (OAE) ▸ ESUP-Portail
2018 WAS A LEAP YEAR FOR THE WEB.
YET NO ONE NOTICED. WHY?
WE'VE BEEN TOO BUSY DISCUSSING WHICH FRAMEWORK IS BEST
WHAT HAPPENED? FIREFOX 63
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WE CAN ALL BE BFFS AND LEVERAGE EACH OTHER'S WITHOUT
ADOPTING EVERY ASPECT OT EACH OTHER'S WORK
ENTER WEB COMPONENTS =)
WHAT IS THAT?
1ST ANSWER IT'S NOT ANOTHER FRAMEWORK
2ND ANSWER IT'S A SET OF W3C STANDARDS
3RD ANSWER YES, IT'S AVAILABLE TODAY, EVERYWHERE
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4TH ANSWER IT'S NOT EVEN A NEW IDEA! THERE'S PROOF
5TH ANSWER (FAV) THE WEB AS THE PLATFORM
<your-tag></your-tag> <!-- - Custom, reusable, encapsulated HTML tags - For
use in web pages and web apps - Work in all major browsers - JS agnostic -->
HTML TEMPLATE <template> CUSTOM ELEMENTS <your-tag/> ES MODULES <script type="module">
SHADOW DOM <slot>
ALRIGHT, BUT HOW?
LIBRARY DIFFERENCES EXAMPLE
HELLO WORLD EXAMPLE // taken from https://lit-element.polymer-project.org/ import { LitElement,
html } from 'lit-element'; class SimpleGreeting extends LitElement { static get properties() { return { name: { type: String } }; } constructor() { super(); this.name = 'World'; } render() { return html`<p>Hello, ${this.name}!</p>`; } } customElements.define('simple-greeting', SimpleGreeting);
WHAT'S IN IT FOR DEVS? ▸ CSS is scoped ▸
Custom HTML is semantic ▸ JS scoping is simpler ▸ Re-usable code ▸ Accessibility becomes manageable ▸ WC keeps design intentional
WHAT'S IN IT FOR MANAGERS? ▸ Lower maintenance costs ▸
Cost of development collapses ▸ Lower boilerplate and churn for future projects ▸ Extensibility ▸ It's a W3C standard, no legacy
I'M SOLD, LET'S TRY IT
A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE!
A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE ▸ video players ▸ dropdown
menus ▸ timelines ▸ animations ▸ all sorts of visual and non visual components
ADVANTAGES IN A NUTSHELL ▸ 100% re-usable components (style, business
logic or mixed) ▸ Split work among teams ▸ CDN served components ▸ No need for greenfield projects, upgrade step by step! ▸ No need for a framework ▸ Avoid (platform) lock-in
BARRIERS TO ADOPTION ▸ Lots of libraries already (litElement, skateJs,
Stencil, slimJS, etc) ▸ Requires proper JS knowledge ▸ Requires tooling (webpack, lerna, rollup, npm, git, etc...) ▸ Deployment ▸ Documentation
WHO'S USING? ▸ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/ ▸ EA: https://www.ea.com/en-gb ▸ https://www.webcomponents.org/
▸ https://www.byu.edu/
COMMUNITY RESOURCES ▸ OpenWC ▸ WebComponents.org ▸ Try litElement ▸
Polymer ▸ Compatibility ▸ dev.to
THANK YOU. Q&A TIME
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