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by runarberg 1841 days ago
I see many people have problem with that in the comments here. However I don’t find that to be an issue. Passing properties (as opposed to attributes) allows complex types and many popular frameworks have a handy shorthand for it (e.g. in lit-html you write `<my-component .prop=${[1, 2, 3]}>`).

In my opinion the bad ergonomics is actually when authoring the components (not consuming it). Many of the faults have been excellently pointed out previously[1]. The most glaring the boilerplate you have to write if you want your attributes to reflect a property.

This has an easy fix though, which is that you simply don’t write your web components by hand. You either use a library (like lit-element[2]) or a compiler (like stencil[3]). I’m personally waiting for a less opinionated compiler with a smaller runtime then stencil (preferably no runtime; perhaps that is Svelte with a web component target, I haven’t tried it).

There is also a proposal for a declarative shadow DOM[4], which aims to tackle some of the bad dev experience we have with web components. However I’m personally a little skeptic that it is a good proposal, or that it will fix what most web component devs are concerned about.

1: https://dev.to/richharris/why-i-don-t-use-web-components-2ci...

2: https://github.com/lit/lit-element

3: https://stenciljs.com/

4: https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/831

1 comments

Thanks for the response, I appreciate it!