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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
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Implementing Web Components using Polymer and Stencil

Integrating Web Components in Angular

Let's say that we have an already-existing Angular app. This could be a full-fledged project or a starter app, and we want to use the <header-image> web component in an Angular component. We'll start with the setup.

Setting up an Angular project

Let's say that we want to start with a starter app. We can follow the steps given at the following URL to install and serve the starter app: https://angular.io/guide/quickstart.

Angular does not support Vanilla Web Components by default, so even before we start using Web Components, though, we need to tell Angular that we want to use a web component. We can do so by adding the following code in the app.module.ts file:

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