Vanilla Web Components

Dear Web Component enthousiasts,

We have had a strong focus on Polymer this year. We discussed architectural patterns when using Polymer in large applications at ING and Phusion. We have seen how to use the browser for performance gain, and how to serve your components as fast as possible. And we've covered Polymer 2 and 3 in one year.

Surely, we haven't seen the last of Polymer, but we know that it is possible to make a website without it. (Albeit less cool. 😆) Moreover, we've heard our members say they use different tools, frameworks or rather nothing at all, just plain Javascript. Let's end the year with something different. Let's meetup on the topic of Web Components, without it being tailored on Polymer.

Venue The venue might already be known to you. It is at our friends from codecentric in B.Amsterdam. Furthermore, the dinner is sponsored by Flock.

Parking It is possible to park at B.Amsterdam. The first two hours are free, €2 p/h.

Schedule The night will be as follows:
17:30 Doors open
18:00 Dinner served
19:00 Start talks, two speakers
20:30 Discussion at drinks

Speakers This time we have two speakers: Goffert van Gool and Mitchell Herrijgers. A brief introduction to their talks:

2017 has been a year of change in the Web Component landscape. On one hand the HTML Import specification has ultimately been rejected, and we will never be able to use it without polyfills. But on the other hand the two largest browsers shipped full support for the latest Web Component specification, which means almost 50% of all users can now run Web Components without polyfills. And with ES Modules seeing widespread support, it looks like we will finally have a native import system for the Web. So what does this mean for Web Components, and what will Web Component development look like going forward? Goffert van Gool will be speaking about future Web Component development models, and will introduce a Web Component framework purpose-built to leverage the latest developments in the ecosystem.

Secondly, Mitchell will talk about E2e-testing in the Shadow DOM. The encapsulation provided by using Shadow DOM helps us in developing web applications. It is the same encapsulation that prevents us from testing it like we normally do. We will explore the features and inner workins of the Shadow DOM, the limitations it puts on testing and propose a solution: wdio-webcomponents.

Question Would you all be so kind to answer the following when signing up: What is your favourite framework for making websites, it can be anything! I hope to be enlightened.

See you at our last meetup of the year!

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