848: Web Components Can’t Save Us with Scott Jehl
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Wes Bos
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Scott and Wes talk with Scott Jehl about the benefits, challenges, and use cases of web components, particularly in design systems and performance.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 00:55 Scott’s background and career
- 06:46 An overview of web components
- 09:06 Why should people care about web components?
- 13:16 Should you write your own web components?
- 14:39 Reactivity in web components
- 15:56 DOM parts
- 18:23 Styling web components
- 22:08 Brought to you by Sentry.io
- 22:33 CSS custom properties
- 24:28 Responsive video
- 28:27 The polyfill use case
- 30:55 Shadow DOM challenges
- 36:04 Web components in design systems
- 41:58 How are people using web components?
- 43:25 Web components and server-side rendering
- 45:00 Scott’s thoughts on build tools
- 47:33 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Syntax. |
| 0:01.3 | Today, we've got an episode for you today on mostly web components. |
| 0:05.2 | And I think we're going to title this one, |
| 0:07.6 | Web Components Can't Save Us because we've got Scott Jell on. |
| 0:11.2 | He has a pretty good background in JavaScript and web development in general. |
| 0:17.6 | I'll let him talk a little bit about that, but I've known him for, I don't know, probably |
| 0:22.0 | feels like 13, 14 years. I remember taking a bus to JQuery conference together many, many years |
| 0:28.6 | ago, and it's kind of fun to be able to, this often happens. We get to come back and talk to people |
| 0:34.4 | that you've known for so long. So welcome, Scott. Thanks for coming on. |
| 0:37.7 | Hey, thanks, Wes. |
| 0:38.6 | It's really nice to be here. |
| 0:40.1 | I listen to the show all the time. |
| 0:41.3 | So, and good to see you, Scott. |
| 0:44.0 | Yeah, likewise. |
| 0:45.7 | Yeah, two Scots. |
| 0:46.5 | I don't think we've ever had two Scots on, have we? |
| 0:48.6 | I don't know. |
| 0:49.8 | This very well may you a first. We've never had another Wes on it. Really? Yeah. |
| 0:59.2 | You want to give people just a quick rundown of your background? |
| 1:05.3 | I know from way back when you were pretty early in like the responsive design a scene. |
| 1:07.6 | And then you've had several jobs since then. |
| 1:08.2 | Yeah. |
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