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Getting Started with Web Components

By : Prateek Jadhwani
Book Image

Getting Started with Web Components

By: Prateek Jadhwani

Overview of this book

Web Components are a set of APIs that help you build reusable UI modules that can operate in any modern browser using just Vanilla JavaScript. The power of Web Components lies in their ability to build frontend web applications with or without web frameworks. With this practical guide, you will understand how Web Components can help you build reusable UI components for your modern web apps. The book starts by explaining the fundamentals of Web Components' design and strategies for using them in your existing frontend web projects. You will also learn how to use JavaScript libraries such as Polymer.js and Stencil.js for building practical components. As you progress, you will build a single-page application using only Web Components to fully realize their potential. This practical guide demonstrates how to work with Shadow DOM and custom elements to build the standard components of a web application. Toward the end of the book, you will learn how to integrate Web Components with standard web frameworks to help you manage large-scale web applications. By the end of this book, you will have learned about the capabilities of Web Components in building custom elements and have the necessary skills for building a reusable UI for your web applications.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Title Page
7
Implementing Web Components using Polymer and Stencil

Introduction to state management

Anything that can be used to manage the state of a User Interface (UI) can be considered as state management. And we see examples of state management in almost every site that we use on a daily basis. You use Gmail or any other email service. And emails have a state of read or unread. If you are playing a song on Spotify, the song that you are listening to has a state of liked or not liked. Based on these states, the UI can be shown in a different manner. 

Web Components follow a similar approach. We can use a variable inside our Web Component to keep track of the state. Let's say that we want to create a Web Component that tells the user whether the device that the user is using is online or not. So, the state here will be isOnline and its value could be either online or offline. So let's begin.

Let's call this component &lt...