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Youtube's website is built with web components (used to be Polymer, but I wonder if they haven't migrated to lit by now). Seems to be working fine for a large-s

Youtube's website is built with web components (used to be Polymer, but I wonder if they haven't migrated to lit by now). Seems to be working fine for a large-scale project like theirs. Chrome Dev Tools are also, at least in part, built with web components.

dmitriid 5y ago
> Seems to be working fine for a large-scale project like theirs. It's not web components that were working for them at scale, but Polymer. They would've probably nebver completed anything with Web Components alone due to how horrendously bad their API is. You can compare Web Components API and Polymer API here: https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/865518972380237825 https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/865518972380237825 It still took them over two years to switch from Custom Elements v0 to Custom Elements v1.