React had their own solution to web problems and went with it. Don't confuse that with obstinately discarding your favored technology. I personally tried web components and it was nothing but pain and solved no problems I actually had, unlike React.
I work mostly with React but maintained a cross-framework web component library for a while, most of the issues that came in from our users we could not do anything about, as they had to be fixed by framework maintainers...the project died.
Turns out that it's really difficult to make web components work with existing frameworks because instead of simply using existing web primitives as you'd expect, they made new ones. They use incapsulation primitives and state boundaries that make integrating them seamlessly with other frameworks anywhere from difficult to literally impossible. So it's unfortunate but unsurprising that the frameworks didn't fix the issues in time. Framework authors have spoken at length about their difficulties in developing generic interop with web components. Many of those issues persist to this day, long, long after the enthusiasm and momentum has gone.
I'm sorry but purposely ignoring standards that were decided upon by multiple parties is always a shithead move. It shows that you don't actually care about community standards and just want to thrust what you believe down everyone's throats.
The issues were more behavioral for us. You can build the web component however you want, and the venn diagram of acceptable WC behavior vs React isn’t a full circle at all. Changing elements directly will mess up any VDOM-based approach, resetting state because rerendering means having a brand new WC, creating custom events in an esoteric way, it was a minefield of incompatibility beyond just “React can work with web components”
Lol. Or is introducing a "standard" that no one asked for and squealing that no one wants to spend their lives integrating your leaky "solution" a shithead move? Who is shoving things down people's throats really? You are very confused about the timeline for how these events played out.
React had their own solution to web problems and went with it. Don't confuse that with obstinately discarding your favored technology. I personally tried web components and it was nothing but pain and solved no problems I actually had, unlike React.
I work mostly with React but maintained a cross-framework web component library for a while, most of the issues that came in from our users we could not do anything about, as they had to be fixed by framework maintainers...the project died.
Turns out that it's really difficult to make web components work with existing frameworks because instead of simply using existing web primitives as you'd expect, they made new ones. They use incapsulation primitives and state boundaries that make integrating them seamlessly with other frameworks anywhere from difficult to literally impossible. So it's unfortunate but unsurprising that the frameworks didn't fix the issues in time. Framework authors have spoken at length about their difficulties in developing generic interop with web components. Many of those issues persist to this day, long, long after the enthusiasm and momentum has gone.
I'm sorry but purposely ignoring standards that were decided upon by multiple parties is always a shithead move. It shows that you don't actually care about community standards and just want to thrust what you believe down everyone's throats.
The issues were more behavioral for us. You can build the web component however you want, and the venn diagram of acceptable WC behavior vs React isn’t a full circle at all. Changing elements directly will mess up any VDOM-based approach, resetting state because rerendering means having a brand new WC, creating custom events in an esoteric way, it was a minefield of incompatibility beyond just “React can work with web components”
Lol. Or is introducing a "standard" that no one asked for and squealing that no one wants to spend their lives integrating your leaky "solution" a shithead move? Who is shoving things down people's throats really? You are very confused about the timeline for how these events played out.
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