In just a few short years Web Components have gone from "be all end all web development" to "yeah, enhance some HTML maybe". That said, this is actually closer

In just a few short years Web Components have gone from "be all end all web development" to "yeah, enhance some HTML maybe". That said, this is actually closer to the actual original idea of web components [1] than the "react is bad frameworks are bad use the platform" chorus of recent years [2]. [1] See this original talk (and transcript) by Alex Russel sometime in 2011: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2011/sessions/web-components-and-model-driven-views-alex-russell https://fronteers.nl/congres/2011/sessions/web-components-an... [2] Which is ironic because web components are extremely bad at using the platform themselves https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1717580502280867847 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1717580502280867847