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But there is no web component for that! by Horacio Gonzalez

470 views · Published 8 November 2017 · 29:27 · Indexed 12 November 2026

Channel: Devoxx · 2017 · Science & Technology

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When start working with Web Components, you are often drawn to webcomponents.org site, surprised and delighted to see the number of available custom elements (and their quality). It's a nice phase, you choose your custom elements, gather them, and build your app like if you were working with LEGO bricks.

Then you begin to get more proficient with Web Components, writing more complex apps, with exotic features, and sooner or later you will be face to a feature for which there is no available component. Or better said, for which there is no web component yet... because you are going to write it!

In this talk we show how to easily transform a JS library in a web component by wrapping the library with a Polymer envelope, and how that element will be as simple to use as any other component of the catalog. And in order to do it, I'm going to use two real life custom elements that I wrote to use in the Devoxx Lead Scan app.

# Horacio Gonzalez
Spaniard lost in Brittany, unconformist coder, Java craftsman, dreamer and all-around geek. Works at @CityzenData. Founder & leader of @FinistJUG & @GDGFinistere. Google Developer Expert (GDE) in Web Technologies.

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