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Supper Club × Web Components and Lit with Justin Fagnani of Google

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

CHAPTER

Web Components for the Uninformed

The easiest way to think about web components is that the browser already has a component model. There's custom elements which lets you define your own tag and then the shadow DOM which lets you put the internals of that tag into a special area of the DOM, a private DOM area. The biggest feature that you get that people don't talk about much is interoperable composition. If you look at React, children or view slots or stuff like that, the platform does this for you with shadow DOM.

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