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Web Components vs React

Cluster focuses on debates comparing Web Components to React and other JS frameworks, discussing their advantages like universality and browser-native support, shortcomings such as API usability and Shadow DOM issues, and why they haven't replaced frameworks.

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Sample Comments

syntern • Mar 19, 2014 • View on HN

Why not just use web components?

vaylian • May 12, 2025 • View on HN

Why do you think web components are not great?

paavohtl • Sep 29, 2021 • View on HN

What does WebComponents offer that also React offers, other than some form of components?

cranberryturkey • Jul 3, 2024 • View on HN

web components are great replacement for a bloated react framework.

peanut_worm • Sep 29, 2021 • View on HN

I haven’t used React in a while, what does it offer that WebComponents do not?

spankalee • Oct 29, 2020 • View on HN

Seems like a great use case for web components, which would just work in any framework.

nawitus • Feb 7, 2015 • View on HN

How about using Web Components? They seem to solve most of the problems that JavaScript frameworks try to solve.

aikah • Mar 20, 2015 • View on HN

What happened to web components ? isn't supposed to solve these issues ?

XCSme • Jun 22, 2023 • View on HN

Will Web Components ever replace those front-end libraries? What are they lacking?

thayne • May 12, 2020 • View on HN

Webcomponents should help with this. Although the current API is not as pleasant to use as react.