The Evolution of Web Components

This meetup is focused on the evolution of web components.

From jQuery widgets to backbone views, and finally to polymer or ember/angular/react components, what’s next?

Key Topics

• Custom Elements, Shadow DOM, HTML Templates, HTML Imports
• Frameworks (ember, angular, react) and their approach to components
• Composability

Topic 1: The road to native web components

Mike North (http://twitter.com/michaellnorth) is a startup advisor, a Principal Software Engineer and UI Engineering Lead of Yahoo Ads & Data’s flagship product “Yahoo Ad Manager Plus”, and an open source contributor. Mike will take us through the evolution of web components, and then use Chrome and Polymer.js to illustrate what upcoming web standards will empower developers to do with vanilla JavaScript.

Topic 2: The Coveted "Universal Web Component Format".

Jay Phelps (http://www.twitter.com/_jayphelps), Senior Front End Engineer at Netflix will present the challenges of creating components that can be naturally consumed by any modern framework as well as provide the features and maintainability we've come to expect. Not only HTML bindings, but CSS as well.

He'll also discuss potential solutions to these problems and give a teaser to a solution he's currently working on.

Topic 3: Ember.js Components: past, present and future

Stefan Penner (https://twitter.com/stefanpenner) is an Ember.js core team member, a Principal Software Engineer at Yahoo, and a prolific open source contributor to many projects including ember.js, ember-cli, ember-data and Babel.js. Stef will speak about the history, state and plan of web components in Ember.js