[staticelf]

I tried to build an app with web components but honestly, the DX is quite bad and I abandoned the shadow DOM for light dom until I abandoned the vanilla tech stack entirely and moved the project to React. It is just so much faster to develop in React in comparison. Also when stuff goes wrong with components they many times just fail silently with no errors given to the console.

You have such a great community with big, very well thought out libraries like Tanstack Query that is pretty nice to work with. I can have backend and front end code in the same repository in a simple way and reuse code.

I also have the project in Phoenix Liveview which is also a much nicer way of using components. The thing is I don't really know which tech stack is gonna win so I made a small prototype in both to see different advantages / disadvantages.

One thing is clear tho, pretty much everything is better than using vanilla components and it's really sad because I really do want to use vanilla components and I want them to be good.