The state of Web Components

Web Components have been on developers’ radars for quite some time now. They were first introduced to the world by Dimitri Glazkov and Alex Komoroske at Google IO 2012. The concept shook the community up and became the topic of many future talks and discussions. In 2013 a Web Components-based framework called Polymer was released by Google to kick the tires of these new APIs, get community feedback and add some sugar and opinion. By now, 3 years on, Web Components should be everywhere, but in reality Chrome is the only browser with ‘some version’ of Web Components. Even with polyfills it’s clear Web Components won’t be fully embraced by the community until the majority of browsers are on-board.