Part 3. Putting your components together

The last part of this book is all about taking everything we’ve learned and making sure our components are production ready, tested, and working together as a group—everywhere.

Since the second chapter, we’ve been building and improving a very simple component. The first chapter in part 3 brings this component back to build something greater, with that simple component as a smaller, nested piece of a bigger Web Component. We put this new component through its paces by introducing a build and testing process, and finally refactoring it to make sure it works all the way down to IE11.

Orchestrating interactions and messaging throughout an entire application is no small feat either and, as such, is very important to the conversation, especially when deciding to use Web Components instead of a major framework. This part discusses some strategies around that before finally ending on some emerging technologies where Web Components could be useful, like Web 3D, Mixed Reality, and Machine Learning—all bringing simple examples from the book back to explore these futuristic subjects.