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An Inquiry Into HTML Web Components

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HTML Web Components are “having their moment” as the saying goes, but what exactly are HTML Web Components, and why are they having a moment? In this exclusive video, I break down what the approach is that everyone’s talking about, and I also show off examples of open source components you can use in your web projects today. Interested in building your own HTML Web Components to share with the web development community? We talk about that too.

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