custom-elements-everywhere VS stencil

With React (it seems) finally moving to support everything needed (they are the last major framework lagging behind substantially), too, we might be moving to a world post-framework discussions, and real interoperability on a technical level. I think Jake Lazaroff motivates this beautifully with his articles “Web Components Eliminate JavaScript Framework Lock-in” and “The Web Component Success Story”.

Seems it doesn’t work in React, everything is sent as a string. There was a link in the article that shows how well web components work with various frameworks.

https://custom-elements-everywhere.com/

You can see how React fares for itself.

React supports Web Components, just some quirks to be aware of: https://custom-elements-everywhere.com/

You could wrap each component as a Web Component and then import them for each repo. Web Components are not native to frameworks, so the support for them could vary when passing props. Or you could wrap the render method of each framework as a function and then use the receiving frameworks life cycle method and inject it onto the page. If you use frameworks like Svelte or Lit that are "Web Component" based, then you'd need to see if the receiving framework supports Web Components inorder to import the seamlessly.

Check compatibility of React with web components: https://custom-elements-everywhere.com/ It's not directly because of jsx, but because of synthetic "let's make it up" approach of React.

I have been using this approach recently as well, working great thus far ! Some things to consider though: - I would recommend checking if the other frameworks you intend to use have good web components support (looking at you, react): https://custom-elements-everywhere.com/ - There are ways to do so without web components, but I wouldn't recommend them unless your framework has poor web components support.

VueJS actually fails some advanced tests for WebComponents: https://custom-elements-everywhere.com/

So, VueJS docs are actually incorrect when they say it scores 100%. The actual score is 90%.

I had reported this 8 months ago.

Since Web Components are supported natively by browsers, they can be used in any libraries and frameworks either directly or with configurations. https://custom-elements-everywhere.com/ is a great site to check custom elements support status by different libraries and frameworks.

First a disclosure: I never actually used Stencil, only played with it a bit locally in a hello-world project while writing this post.

This is my main concern too.

I don't understand why tools like this "pick a winner" with a specific framework instead of rendering to Web Components with a framework wrapper, or using something like Stencil[1] that can render to any framework.

[1] https://stenciljs.com/

I was recently able to sit down with some of the core members of Ionic, who also created Stencil a toolchain for building Design Systems and Progressive Web Apps. We talked at great length how typically companies are approaching Ionic from a Design Team and need help building components. As a developer I wanted to talk about the Web Components that are used within the Design System first. There was a decent amount of surprise, so I thought I would break down what a Design System is and why it doesn't matter which end you start with, as long as you have both your Design and Development teams working together to build your Design System.

Examples like this bug me. The React example is using a high level abstraction, the web component is directly using the API. A more accurate example would show how those React calls eventually boil down to document.createElement()

I don’t think the Web Components API was meant to be used directly all the time. You can use a framework like StencilJS:

https://stenciljs.com/

You might say that this is the same vicious cycle as JavaScript frameworks. That's wrong, because Web Components are interoperable by design. Choosing Stencil or Lit or any other library is a development convenience that has little to do with the interoperability of the resulting components.

Not sure about Vue but you can in Angular, though my experience with React components in Angular has not been pleasant. Libraries such as Stencil allow you to create native Web Componets from React components.

I guess my problem is more specific to my overall architecture. I have components that when are placed in the DOM, have props rendered on them by their parent elements. I'm using stencil to do this.