[asurty]

IMO they are complimentary to react.

Frameworks like react/angular/backbone/vue solve the problem of creating a single page application with a nice architecture and sharing code between components within the SPA.

Web components solve the problem of sharing code between any application.

There are opportunities to share code (eg/ data binding) and I believe that is the case (they use the same underlying browser APIs where available)

[pjmlp]

With exception of React, all those frameworks have options to generate WebComponents for their component model.

[asurty]

That is cool, didn't realize that! I wonder why React lags behind ( ? )

[pjmlp]

I think it is a culture issue, as far as I understand the underlying issue, the React community is not so impressed with having to deal with Web Components.

[dmitriid]

Realistically, there's almost no community that is impressed with having to deal with Web Components.

In this discussion I keep reiterating: there are multiple reasons why none of the major frameworks and very few of the new frameworks have WCs as their foundation. At best they can consume/embed them and perhaps compile to them. And even that is rife with problems.

[pjmlp]

If we ignore the fact that everyone else supports them, regardless if they are their foundation or not.

https://custom-elements-everywhere.com/

[dmitriid]

> everyone else supports them

That's what I said: At best they can consume/embed them and perhaps compile to them.

> regardless if they are their foundation or not.

And the fact that they are not forming the foundation of these frameworks should be examined and fixed, not ignnored. However, wc proponents ignore this entirely.

[asurty]

Web components seem like a good idea to me. I would imagine there are a lot of libraries out there (eg/ calendars, styling frameworks) that would benefit from reuse across applications. The browser could cache it even if served from a different CDN.

I'm curious what the problems are with web components that you see? Is it specifically related to how they might be used (or useless) in the major frameworks?

[dmitriid]

> I'm curious what the problems are with web components that you see?

Bitesized explanation from Rich Harris, the author of Svelte: https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris/status/1198332398561353728 It's from 2019, but all the issues are still there. When/If they are going to be solved, it will be by increasingly complex standards that require more and more Javascript for them to just barely function (like they couldn't even participate in form events without additional Javascript).

See also a larger discussion by the author of Solid: https://youtu.be/BEWkLXU1Wlc?t=5837 (if the link doesn't open at the timestamp, skip to "Failed Promise of Web Components" at 1:37:17). It's a bit rambling because it was unrehearsed and on stream, but still good. He also shows and discusses other articles like Rich Harris' https://dev.to/richharris/why-i-don-t-use-web-components-2ci... and his own https://dev.to/ryansolid/maybe-web-components-are-not-the-fu... You can read them directly, but Ryan gives excellent additional context.