I think you're reading "web component" as a generic term, but the author is using it to specifically refer to Web Components as a specific browser technology: h

I think you're reading "web component" as a generic term, but the author is using it to specifically refer to Web Components as a specific browser technology: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components You can sort of imagine it as another generic "web component" framework, but blessed into full, native browser support, and getting some features/technologies that required browsers to implement new features to support them.