Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Google believes web components are the future of web development

Technology is changing day by day and everyday due to the new innovations, web-development is changing its landscape. Google’s CEO Sunder Pichai believes that, vision for the web development is clear and it will allow the developers to build elegant user interfaces that works across all factors. 


Basically web components are enhanced features added to by W3C to drive out reusable widgets or components in web–applications. The sole purpose to do this, is to bring software based engineering to the World Wide Web. And when it comes to the web-components, every chrome developer’s mind would blush with excitements.

Project Polymer is one of the project which is indulged in writing a web application frameworks. It is developed with the ideas of web-components and likewise permits the web developers to implement those ideas on browsers. Hence, the ideas behind the web-component techniques is very much clear that, Google has the ability to change the developer’s perspective of writing web-apps.

Web-developers give the developers an easy-way to create reusable widgets with the aid of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The ideas behind web-components is around since many years but today too, this topic has a huge hype and is the most talked about.

It’s easy to speak about building the web-pages but when it comes to implementing it’s really very difficult. Building single page web-app with all the user- friendly web components models is really not easy. This web-components help the developers to encapsulate the HTML, CSS and JavaScript so that it doesn’t become hindrance with other pages. Other pages also doesn’t interfere with it.

Developers can’t just rely on this web-components to carry out their work with all browsers. Google Chrome includes the support of the web-component but it is hidden behind number of flags. And for the Mozilla Firefox, some of the components are just not supported. But it is said that, through polymer project it will likewise support to all the browsers in near future.

Web Components depends on the four factors that is template element, Shadow Dom, custom elements and the decorators.
  • Template: Templates in the web component contains markup which are used to store the long scripts but they are only used, when they are needed.
  • Decorators: As the name says, it enhances the presentations through CSS and you can even customize it according to your requirements.
  • Custom Elements: Custom elements are used to encapsulate the data and provides scripting privileges.
  • Shadow DOM: It allows you to encapsulate DOM and CSS.
All these four modules combine with each other and create a HTML tag. Additionally, developers can separate presentations from the content with the help of web components and Shadow Dom module give you surety that, styles and designs you built for your website doesn’t interfere with the widgets of the web components.

Advantages of web-components:
  • It helps to decorate and enhance the look and feel of the website
  • Users can easily communicate with the server and the host database
  • Plug-in components helps in improving security by disabling the unwanted traffic to the website
  • DOM is the API of web-component; with some integrations it ease the work by putting HTML element inside another
  • It initializes automatically, hence you only need to use HTML tag
  • Additional markups are hidden with the help of Shadow DOM
  • Once it is fully controlled by the browsers, it doesn’t require any dependencies
  • Fully encapsulates your data like iFrame but without cruft, avoiding naming collisions
  • With the help of Link Tag, you can pull out other pieces of HTML
  • You can rightly say that, it is element–centric approach as whatever you develop, will be said as a new production of World Wide Web
Web-Components might not be the jackpot, that will find the solution for all the web development problems, but in near future, after gaining big enough support it will surely find the solutions for the better web development and maintenance of web pages and web-apps.

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