
About this episode
Components have become the go-to method for structuring and composing UIs on the Web. Usually this means relying on a JavaScript framework such as React, Vue, or Angular. But it turns out that there is a standard mechanism for creating components built into browsers. Ben Farrell who wrote a book on this mechanism - Web Components - joins the panel to explain what they are, how they work, and why they are a great, light-weight alternative to JavaScript frameworks.Panel
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- Aimee Knight
- AJ O’Neal
- Dan Shappir
- Steve Edwards
- Ben Farrell
- Ben Farrell: Web Components in Action
- lit-html
- lit-html: Styling Templates
- Combo Box-UI5 Web Components
- Devchat.tv-JSJ 424: UI5 and web components with Peter Muessig
- Ben Farrell: Web Components in Space
- JavaScript Reaches the Final Frontier: Space
- Aimee- You should expect "equal pay for equal work" at your new remote job
- AJ- Keeping things fresh with stale-while-revalidate
- AJ- Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath
- AJ- Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
- AJ-OpenAudible
- Ben- Medium by Adobe
- Ben- Gravity sketch
- Ben- Tvori
- Dan- Web performance case study: Wikipedia page previews
- Steve- 13-inch MacBook Pro
- Raygun: Raygun now offers Real User Monitoring of Core Web Vitals. Start your 14-day free trial now.
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