Introduction to Web Components by Hayden Braxton

If you’re not familiar with the term, Web Components refers to a set of DOM and CSS specs that when used together, allow us to build self-contained, shareable components for our web apps with the browser as our only dependency. With support for these specs at almost 100%, now is the time to familiarize ourselves with web components as more organizations and open source libraries adopt these new techniques. And it also never hurts to get better acquainted with the modern web.

In this talk, we’ll cover the following questions:
What specs are involved in building web components?
How’s browser support? (Spoiler alert: It’s pretty good!)
How does one build a web component? (We’ll build one from scratch. It’ll be great fun!)
How do web components differ from framework components?
What tools exist to ease the process of building web components?

Hayden Braxton is a native resident of RVA, currently working as a software engineer for Unboxed Technology. In his free time, you will probably find him writing code, hanging out with dev communities, or honing his South Indian cooking skills.

Schedule:
6 PM - 6:30 PM - Attendees arrive, an opportunity to eat some food, network and collaborate with other attendees
6:30 - 6:35 PM - Announcements and Housekeeping items
6:35 - 7:25/7:45 - Speaker Presentation and Questions & Answers
7:25/7:45 - Opportunity to collaborate & network with speaker and other attendees. Ask additional questions to the speaker.
8:00 PM - Meetup is over. See you next month!

We will have some Chicken Fiesta to gorge on so bring an appetite. I don't want to hear that you ate before coming to the Meetup.

As always, the meeting is free... Looking forward to seeing you!!
Gaelen