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      <p>After my Beyond Blocks episode with Mark Conroy, I've spent some time this week experimenting with web components.</p>

      <p>The team and I are building a new design system in Fractal and, as Drupal is our main application, we're using Twig as our templating language within Fractal so the changes are easier to port between systems.</p>

      <p>Web components are agnostic, so they work within different languages and frameworks.</p>

      <p>We also use other technologies, such as Vue.js, and third-party suppliers, so having an agnostic web component would reduce the time and effort needed to implement the design system across different technologies and applications.</p>

      <p>If we can make self-contained web components that include their own styling and behaviour, that also improves re-usability and reduces the maintenance overhead as there would be one canonical version for everyone to use - not just a reference implementation everyone would need to recreate.</p>

      <p>After this spike, I'm intrigued to see how we could use web components and what potential issues we can solve with them whilst reducing our implementation and maintenance efforts.</p>

      <p>Are you interested in web components, too? <a href="/podcast/11-mark-conroy">Listen to the podcast episode with Mark Conroy</a>.</p>

              
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      <p>After my Beyond Blocks episode with Mark Conroy, I've spent some time this week experimenting with web components.</p>

      <p>The team and I are building a new design system in Fractal and, as Drupal is our main application, we're using Twig as our templating language within Fractal so the changes are easier to port between systems.</p>

      <p>Web components are agnostic, so they work within different languages and frameworks.</p>

      <p>We also use other technologies, such as Vue.js, and third-party suppliers, so having an agnostic web component would reduce the time and effort needed to implement the design system across different technologies and applications.</p>

      <p>If we can make self-contained web components that include their own styling and behaviour, that also improves re-usability and reduces the maintenance overhead as there would be one canonical version for everyone to use - not just a reference implementation everyone would need to recreate.</p>

      <p>After this spike, I'm intrigued to see how we could use web components and what potential issues we can solve with them whilst reducing our implementation and maintenance efforts.</p>

      <p>Are you interested in web components, too? <a href="/podcast/11-mark-conroy">Listen to the podcast episode with Mark Conroy</a>.</p>

              
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