open-wc VS catalyst

npm init @open-wc@latest Need to install the following packages: @open-wc/[email protected] Ok to proceed? (y) y _.,,,,,,,,,._ .d'' ``b. Open Web Components Recommendations .p' Open `q. .d' Web Components `b. Start or upgrade your web component project with .d' `b. ease. All our recommendations at your fingertips. :: ................. :: `p. .q' `p. open-wc.org .q' `b. @openWc .d' `q.. ..,' See more details at https://open-wc.org/init/ '',,,,,,,,,,'' Note: you can exit any time with Ctrl+C or Esc ✔ What would you like to do today? › Scaffold a new project ✔ What would you like to scaffold? › Web Component ✔ What would you like to add? › Testing (web-test-runner) ✔ Would you like to use typescript? › Yes ✔ What is the tag name of your web component? … testing-components ./ ├── testing-components/ │ ├── .vscode/ │ │ └── extensions.json │ ├── demo/ │ │ └── index.html │ ├── src/ │ │ ├── index.ts │ │ ├── testing-components.ts │ │ └── TestingComponents.ts │ ├── test/ │ │ └── testing-components.test.ts │ ├── .editorconfig │ ├── .gitignore │ ├── LICENSE │ ├── package.json │ ├── README.md │ ├── tsconfig.json │ ├── web-dev-server.config.mjs │ └── web-test-runner.config.mjs ✔ Do you want to write this file structure to disk? › Yes Writing..... done ✔ Do you want to install dependencies? › Yes, with npm

Nice. We have data with meaning. Now let's create the presentation layer (aka the UI!) and then let's add interactivity to the UI, so we can have feedback when actually simulating an exam (aka the Frontend!). Since in ING we are advocates of Web Components, I always wanted to give this stack a try for side projects. I jumped right into open-wc.org and used the npm generator. Everything worked precisely as expected. It was a breeze since my Chapter is using lit every. single. day. So I could finally get some mileage myself, in writing lit. At work, as a Chapter Lead, I prefer to spend my time more effectively for the team, rather than coding new features by myself; my chapter does it better anyway (#proud).

Open Web Components is a great tool for accessing open-source web components and is very easy to set up with their quickstart guide and easy to understand documentation.

We'll be using open-wc in this post. It simplifies the process of developing web components by providing guides, tools, and libraries. Check out the open-wc website to learn more.

Example 1 - Storybook: https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook Example 2 - OpenWC: https://github.com/open-wc/open-wc Example 3 - Lit: https://github.com/lit/lit.dev

Rocket is an SSG that allows seamless integration of Markdown and WebComponents. There is a project to support the development of web standard technologies called Modern Web, and rocket is a subproject of that project. Other sub-projects are test runner and development server, modern-web for development server, and open-wc for WebComponents development, testing, and linter.

It's unlikely that developers will write their custom-elements.json file by hand. So at Open Web Components, we worked hard on a tool that does it for you!

Check out https://open-wc.org/

Especially their code examples

https://github.com/open-wc/open-wc

Working on the next Web UI (TypeScript + Catalyst).

Catalyst (opt-in via CLI flag)

They actually use a web component system, with a library called Catalyst used to make things a bit easier. They aren't simply doing raw DOM manipulation in Vanilla JavaScript, they're using components and what is essentially a fairly lightweight framework.

Personally, I'd really like to see the unmolested, with-dependencies versions[1].

This version is VERY easy to ship and adopt. But in my mind, these components hide how the sausage is made! Many were built with a library (Catalyst[2]), but the tools were obfuscated out in these end products.

There's a huge amount to be said for these web components. We need more models like this. But I also think there's an opportunity lost here, to teach, to inform, to help others learn how to build components, using the tech Github actually used to develop them.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26439167

[2] https://github.com/github/catalyst