Web Components - What's the Difference?

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With web components you're not necessarily meant to be using them like you are a front end framework and that's kind of the big beef with web components overall. You can write your own client side routing functions to fetch whatever is next and replace it right or you could just use the straight up built-in normal html routing so full page reloads on each reload. Or you could use web components with a javascript framework which might seem counterintuitive and weird but some frameworks work really well with web components. We use a fair amount of web components in our spelt site and spelt handles the navigation the routing those types of things the scoping of css.

In this potluck episode, Scott and Wes talk home electicity, and then answer your questions about native web components, JS class mixins, JavaScript for marketers, managing application secrets, and more!

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00:10 Welcome
01:09 Sponsor: Sentry
02:18 Electrical house update
Klien Wirestrippers
07:45 Custom Syntax podcast browser
Custom Syntax browser
09:29 When using browser native web components (i.e. extends HTMLElement), should the whole application be wrapped in a component tree similar to how React apps do it?
Deno
Using Web Components with Next or any SSR Framework
16:12 Should I avoid JS/TS class mixins?
21:07 Is it acceptable to have any string value as a value for a CSS custom property?
26:48 Should agencies consider building marketing sites with JS frameworks or is Wordpress still the best option here?
33:56 What are the main things to think about when laying the foundations for an app or project that will hopefully grow into something big?
41:24 Will Javascript skills give me an edge over other local digital marketers?
WordPress
Ghost
46:00 What tool, if any, do you use for publishing packages?
50:19 Do you have any suggestions on how I can find time to code more?
Bit
54:17 how do you both manage your application secrets (API keys, database credentials etc) when deploying to Digital Ocean or Linode?
58:52 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××