This is a re-publication and expansion of some content first published in “About Web Components” on common Web Component myths and misconceptions. I’ll continue to update this article as I find more erroneous content. …

Recently I published a blog post with a step-by-step tutorial showing how to build your first Web Component in Vanilla JS. In this post, I want to take a step back and talk more about the “what” of Web Components and less about the “how”. …

If you’ve heard about Web Components but have never built one yourself, you’ve come to the right place. The time has come! Let’s build a Web Component together! When I have the opportunity to teach folks about Web Components, I usually like to start with something simple that many of…

Ahoy Mateys! It be international talk like a pirate day, and I be wantin’ ta’ talk a bit about one o’ me favorite topics: RUM! This ain’t no topic for landlubbers. So, ye best be ready to dive into the briney deep. When you enter the world of web performance…

Over the last 5 months, I’ve spent time nearly every day doing web front-end engineering without using any libraries or frameworks; not even ones I had previously worked on. I’ve been using only the Web Platform. It’s something I haven’t done in a very long time. The process caused me…

Building reusable UI components is a challenging endeavor. For any given component, there are many details to consider. Having a standard component spec template for your team can be a huge help in delivering high quality, consistent, and accessible components. When I was at Microsoft, I helped design the spec…

One of the longest running requests of the Web Platform is the ability to have native templating and data binding features directly in HTML. For at least two decades innovative developers have been building libraries and frameworks to make up for this platform limitation. …

Millions of people work with HTML every day and billions consume it. But how many of us remember or ever knew the fundamentals? With this in mind, I thought it good to take some time to remind myself of a few details as pertain to HTML and the DOM. What is HTML? Created…

While working on my upcoming Web Components course the other day, I needed to implement a few patterns for class private constructors and protected members. …