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Web components: A special case

Web components: A special case

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Web components: A special case

- [Instructor] When we talk about components for the web, it's important to be precise in our language because in web standards, there's a specification for something called Web Components which defines three separate technologies that can be used independently or together. Custom elements, Shadow DOM and HTML Templates. Web Components is a platform standard supported in all modern browsers. Web Components do not require a JavaScript framework to work and they can work alongside most JavaScript frameworks. This distinction is important because when we talk about components we need to clearly specify what context these components live in. Are we talking about React or Vue or Angular or some other framework specific component? Or are we talking about platform based Web Components? Framework components always require the framework to be in place and typically require a build process with a transpiler like be able to function.…

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