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☔ Jim Schofield 🌼
@jschof.dev

So lots of hot takes going around about web components. I love em, but I understand the frustrations. Here's my take on the single thing that makes Web Components distinct, for better or worse. jschof.dev/posts/2024/1...

jschof.devThe Differentiating Property of Web Components - Jschof.devThere's been a lot of discussion on whether web components are good or not. But there is one property of web components that might make them the best or the worst solution for your needs.
Justin Fagnani
@justinfagnani.com

Nice post! I think a couple of claims are a little off though, in particular there are common patterns that make web components easily do things you say they can't in the article...

Justin Fagnani
@justinfagnani.com

Like setting properties. This is not a Lit abstraction. Properties are plain JS. You can implement them without any helpers. And you can set them from plain JS too, or from frameworks an libraries like React, Angular, Vue, Lit, Stencil, FAST, etc. Lit just provides a way to do it from templates.

☔ Jim Schofield 🌼
@jschof.dev

Yeah, Lit has a construct in its `html` tagged literal that let's you denote property assignment. But this is an assignment made in the litJS templating framework. I don't think I said setting a property was not possible with web components, it's just awkward without those abstractions 🤔

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