Modern frontend development is fragmented with various frameworks and UI libraries, making it tiresome to rebuild UI components each time.
The author is betting big on Web Components, which are suite of native browser technologies that allow creation of custom, reusable HTML elements that work with any frontend tech.
Web Components face challenges like styling, framework friction, learning curve, and lack of tooling. However, modern advancements have addressed many of these issues.
Web Components offer advantages such as cross-framework compatibility, future-proofing, isolation, interoperability, and performance, making them suitable for micro frontends and polyglot stacks.