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Experimenting with web components

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+title: Experimenting with web components
+date: 2024-02-29
+permalink: archive/2024/02/29/experimenting-with-web-components
+tags:
+    - softare-development
+    - web-components
+    - front-end
+cta: subscription
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+    After speaking with Mark Conroy, I've been experimenting with web components.
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+After my Beyond Blocks episode with Mark Conroy, I've spent some time this week experimenting with web components.
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+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.
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+Web components are agnostic, so they work within different languages and frameworks.
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+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.
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+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.
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+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.
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+Are you interested in web components, too? [Listen to the podcast episode with Mark Conroy][episode].
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+[episode]: {{site.url}}/podcast/11-mark-conroy