If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them?

Re:If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them? by kerkeslager on Thursday August 03, 2023 @02:28AM (#36982129)

> You'd have to watch with a MutationObserver and then propagate the change to every instance of a custom element on the page.

This solution works in that you can create a mixin that does this and use it in your custom elements. But if you profile it I think you'll discover it's painfully slow. It's not noticeable if you're using a few custom elements here and there, but if you're, for example, making a table of custom elements, the page will load slowly.

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Re:If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them? by webstrand on Thursday August 03, 2023 @10:28AM (#36986450)

Yeah, that's exactly my experience. I built a framework for quickly prototyping with web components before I discovered the CSS-isolation defect. Sadly it's pretty much killed that idea as unworkable.

<https://codepen.io/webstrand/pen/jOzYVpL> is as far as I got. The FOUS is pretty annoying, too, before the templates get properly registered. But I could live with that.

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