Web Components: Think Outside the Framework w/ Mark Volkmann

Welcome back to our first event as we revive STLJS, the St Louis JavaScript meetup. Our featured speaker will be alumni Mark Volkmann, presenting "Web Components: Think Outside the Framework." We will meet at the OCI training room, see directions and map below. Admission is free and open to all. Doors open at 6pm, presentation begins at 6:30. We'll open the floor for brief announcements before Mark speaks. This event is produced by STLJS alumni seeking to get the community back together. Thanks for your interest, and to OCI for donating their space. Hope to see you there! === Web Components: Think Outside the Framework === Web components enable creating web-based UI components that are directly supported by web browsers. They can implemented and used without downloading libraries or tools, and without configuring a build process. Web components can be used in conjunction with most web frameworks or without any framework. All that sounds great, but why should YOU learn about web components? You likely already have a favorite web framework that is getting the job done. But future project teams may not opt for using that framework. And after working hard to implement great components, wouldn't it be nice if they could be used in multiple applications, regardless of the chosen framework? Web components are not new technology. Web browsers began supporting their use without polyfills in 2016. But web components have been ignored by many web developers. If that includes you then this talk will answer questions like the following: \- What are the pros and cons of building and using web components? \- Where can I find existing web components that I can reuse so I don't have to write everything from scratch? \- How are web components included in a page? \- What are the options for building new web components? \- What are the benefits of using a "Shadow DOM" and how is it used? \- How can template…