Web Components - What Do You Think?

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Web components are a calcification of early 20 ten era best practices in web development. They haven't really survived the eelopments of the last ten years, he says. You can do everything that web components are supposed to let you do with existing framework and not a lot that you can't do with existing frameworks. But you optinto all o these the down sides.

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with the author of Svelte, Rich Harris, about what influenced the creation of Svelte, his thoughts on web components, the virtual DOM, why companies are switching to Svelte, and what’s next for Svelte.

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