[wildpeaks]

Exactly why I banned React from my pipelines years ago, native Web Components + dispatchEvent gives you the modern web without bloat and churn, and Vite for a lightweight HMR thanks to native ES Modules.

Server-side you can use jsdom to polyfill document, it supports Web Components too.

[nathias]

web components are terrible and should not be used for modern development with the exception of very nieche use cases that require sandboxing

[wildpeaks]

Custom elements are web components, it's literally what the article is about