Das Frontend-Experiment: Tausche Framework gegen Web Components

In this article, we will explore how to apply the concept of smart and presentational components with Angular. We will choose a complex-enough target to see all aspects in action, yet understandable and within the scope of this article. The goal is to teach you how to use this architecture in your way. For that, we will iterate through different development stages, starting with the target selection and implementing it in a naive way. After the first development, we will refactor that naive solution into smart and presentational components that are reusable, refactor-friendly, and testable.

When a company has cross-framework teams, it is a good choice to use Web Components to build a unified and framework-independent component library. However, some pitfalls are to consider when integrating these components into web forms. Therefore, for a better understanding, we will look at two possible approaches and try to integrate them into an Angular form as an example.

Notice: All code samples are available on Github!

Modern web technologies enable us to write huge business applications that are performant and easy to use. But with time comes complexity to our projects naturally. That added complexity sums up and makes further app development slow and cumbersome. This article discusses how a simple architectural concept can make every app more maintainable, faster to develop, and extendable in the long run.

In part three of the series about the making of the web-based Microsoft Paint clone paint.js.org, I want to show how you can copy drawings from the Paint clone to other applications and paste them back.

In this article, we are exploring the framework Stencil from Ionic. Stencil is a Web Components compiler helping to create custom Web Components libraries that are usable in any web application.

When developing Web Components you will ask yourself at some point, where to actually get the data and configuration from. If you are used to frameworks like Angular, you know that you can inject services and configurations. Web Components rely on HTML attributes, JavaScript properties and `CustomEvent` for input/outputs. But, what if we use that, to build our own dependency injection to share along with services and configuration? In this deep dive, we are going to experiment and not only see if it is possible but also if it makes sense.