The Web Components Revolution is upon us! Too bad Safari and IE haven’t gotten the memo yet. With silence on whether they will be implementing important parts of the Web Components spec like Shadow DOM, it makes you wonder if we’ll ever be able to use them in our code without large complex polyfills.
However, one part of the Web Components spec is ready to go today! Custom Elements require only a 4k polyfill, work on IE9+ and add a standard, reusable way to create your own tags and add some behavior to them. Are they going to change web development as we know it? No, but are they an important tool that can solve some some problems in an elegant way? Definitely. I’ll talk about how you can use and create your own Custom Elements and show some problems that lend themselves easily to being solved by custom elements.
Presented at NEJS Conf 2015 https://nejsconf.com
