[benno128]

I think framing it this way can lead to real gripes with the interface. Web Components are a great way to build individual components that can be reused across an app, website, or shared as part of a library. They are like helper functions for HTML.

They don't work as well for building apps, sure you can do it, but tools like React/Vue/Svelte are much better at building a whole app experience. Particularly when you consider meta-frameworks and the ecosystem around them.

[no_wizard]

I remember when the language was Web Components would replace frameworks, this was something the people pushing the standards were actively championing at the time and was really one of the main goals of Polymer as well.

They could work well for building apps if the ecosystem was more invested in giving developers what they actually want in a timely manner. (Looking at you template instantiation)

The problem with using them for component libraries is that you break your rendering paradigm of the framework you're using, and that can lead to situations like trying to add event handlers to child components impossible for instance, or having to over-use refs

[troupo]

> I remember when the language was Web Components would replace frameworks, this was something the people pushing the standards were actively championing at the time and was really one of the main goals of Polymer as well.

The language is still there. If anything, it has become more aggressive. Now lit (and stencil) are "standard-based" and "future-proof", and "they are not frameworks", unlike all those non-standards-based framework abominations. (at this point most people roll their eyes).

> They could work well for building apps if the ecosystem was more invested in giving developers what they actually want in a timely manner.

The problem is that none of the people involved in the development of web components ask what developers want. If they ever ask, any answers (including answers from other framework authors and contributors) are ignored, derided, and misconstrued.

There's a reason even people and frameworks who really advocated for web components in the very beginning (Vue, Svelte, Solid) are completely against them now.

[mst]

I believe the VSCode UI components that are designed to be used both internally and by extensions have React wrappers pre-built - see https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-webview-ui-toolkit/blob/... - and the source code to said wrappers might be an interesting read.