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Re:If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them? by azangru on Thursday August 03, 2023 @03:14AM (#36982426)
> Consider: if I'm distributing a library of web components, which of my users' CSS files that I know nothing about do I include?

If you are distributing a library of web components, wouldn't you provide a CSS api for the things that are supposed to be styleable via CSS custom properties and styleable parts?

Case in point: consider Shoelace.

> a completely useless non-solution

Consider the existing libraries of web components — Shoelace for something generic, RedHat's Patternfly or Adobe's Spectrum for something company-specific. How much of a non-solution are they, really?

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Re:If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them? by kerkeslager on Thursday August 03, 2023 @09:22PM (#36994273)
> If you are distributing a library of web components, wouldn't you provide a CSS api for the things that are supposed to be styleable via CSS custom properties and styleable parts?

If you read my previous comments you'll see that the parts that should be styleable--i.e. the content of the component I've defined--are user-defined, so no, I can't document them.

> Consider the existing libraries of web components — Shoelace for something generic, RedHat's Patternfly or Adobe's Spectrum for something company-specific. How much of a non-solution are they, really?

If you read what I said in context, I'm not saying components are useless, I'm saying the unstyled shadow DOM is a completely useless non-solution to the problem I've described.

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