Burton Smith articles - 13 total
Creating Truly Custom Events for Web Components
Learn how to extend JavaScript's Event class to create powerful custom events for web components. Includes TypeScript examples, pros/cons analysis, and best practices for semantic event handling.
Creating Strongly Typed Events for Web Components
Learn how to implement strongly typed custom events in web components with TypeScript. Eliminate type assertions, improve developer experience, and maintain type safety across frameworks like React, Vue, and Angular with practical examples and best practices.
Finding What Drives You
Looking for opportunities when innovation clouds the future.
Deprecating Your Web Component APIs
A guide on deprecating your web component APIs
Do You Need to SSR Your Web Components?
Many front-end frameworks use server-side rendering to improve their app's performance but do web components need to be SSRed?
Web Components and SSR - 2024 Edition
Web components work in SSR, depending on which SSR you're talking about.
Bulletproof Web Component APIs
Some guidelines to ensure your web components don't break when used incorrectly.
Don't Rely on Default Attribute Values For Styling Web Components
Avoid dependencies on default values or accurate values for rendering your web components correctly.
You Should Be Shipping a Manifest with Your Web Components
Besides your components, the Custom Elements Manifest is the most important thing you can ship in...
Dark Mode in Web Components is About to Get AWESOME!
With some new CSS functions becoming generally available across all browsers, working with "dark mode" in web components is about to get a huge improvement.
SEO and Web Components - 2023 Edition
This post includes some important updates about web components and search engine optimization (SEO)
Custom Forms with Web Components and "ElementInternals"
The ElementInternals API allows us to create form-associated custom elements which we can use to make our own supercharged form fields.
Getting Started with Microsoft's FAST Element
A quick guide on getting up and running with Microsoft's FAST Element