54: Are Web Components Ready Yet?

Summary

An honest & candid talk about what we learned since the beginning of Web Components; a hard look at the good, the bad, and the ugly. Christian Heilmann (@codepo8), Wilson Page (@wilsonpage), & Rob Eisenberg (@eisenbergeffect) talk with us on development with these technologies in today's production environments. Developers need to to know what they can expect from the future of Web Components & what they mean to us today in order to make better decisions in their choosing technologies for their engineering efforts.

Resources

• The State of Web Components - https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/06/the-state-of-web-components/

• Web Components and you - http://christianheilmann.com/2014/04/18/web-components-and-you-dangers-to-avoid/

• Over The Edge - http://christianheilmann.com/2015/07/01/over-the-edge-web-components-are-an-endangered-species/

• aurelia.io - http://aurelia.io/

• x-tag - http://www.x-tags.org/

• Polymer - https://www.polymer-project.org/

• Mozilla Articles on Web Components - https://hacks.mozilla.org/category/web-components/

• Konrad Dwinzel’s DOM Listener - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/domlistener/jlfdgnlpibogjanomigieemaembjeolj?hl=en

Panelists

• Erik Isaksen (@eisaksen) - Chrome HTML5 Google Developer Expert

• Daniel Buchner (@csuwildcat) - Microsoft Program Manager & creator of x-tag

• Justin Ribeiro (@justinribeiro)  - Wearables & HTML5 Google Developer Expert & Partner at Stickman Ventures

• Danny Blue (@dee_bloo) - Front End Engineer at Deloitte Digital