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Progressive Enhancement

Fachartikel, Podcasts, Vorträge und mehr zum Thema Progressive Enhancement.

Custom Elements are NOT for Templating

Custom elements are a main technology included in the Web Components Browser specification. They provide a set of APIs for adding custom behavior and interactions to an HTML element – and they do this very well. However, they often are unfairly compared with JavaScript component frameworks. Custom elements were never intended to be a drop-in replacement for a JavaScript framework. This article focuses on what custom elements are, what they do well, and, most importantly, what they do not do.

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Just Add Code
(Part 2)

The last post in this series established that Web Components are a good way to ship markup and logic to a browser in order to provide progressive enhancement. In this part I will show, how Githubs Catalyst library supports us to develop such Web Components.

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