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Re:What's New in React 18? by azangru on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @07:13PM (#28701212)
Youtube's website is built with web components (used to be Polymer, but I wonder if they haven't migrated to lit by now). Seems to be working fine for a large-scale project like theirs.

Chrome Dev Tools are also, at least in part, built with web components.

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Re:What's New in React 18? by dmitriid on Thursday September 30, 2021 @03:48AM (#28704065)
> Seems to be working fine for a large-scale project like theirs.

It's not web components that were working for them at scale, but Polymer.

They would've probably nebver completed anything with Web Components alone due to how horrendously bad their API is. You can compare Web Components API and Polymer API here: https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/865518972380237825

It still took them over two years to switch from Custom Elements v0 to Custom Elements v1.

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