The Complete Web Component Guide: Custom Elements

Become an expert in the future of Web Development (Part 1)

Marius Bongarts
4 min readOct 4, 2021
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Web Components are reusable client-side components based on official web standards and supported by all major browsers. They are an excellent way of encapsulating functionality from the rest of our code. Not only that, but we can reuse them in every web application and web page.

Web Components enable us to develop entirely independently of frontend frameworks/libraries, making them an excellent choice for building reusable elements that must be shared publicly or reused across multiple projects.

The primary benefit of Web Components is that we can use them everywhere. With any framework, or even without a framework.

This article will explain the basics of Web Components in detail to understand more complex examples later. After working through this series of articles, you will be able to create complex frontend components with Web Components that you can reuse anywhere.

Three main technologies

Web Components consist of three main technologies. Combined, we can use them to create custom elements with encapsulated functionality from the rest of our code:

  • Custom elements

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Marius Bongarts
Marius Bongarts

Written by Marius Bongarts

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