Web Components: Build UI Kits for all UI Frameworks

“Frameworks come and go. But standards stay forever.”

If you’ve ever rebuilt the same button or dropdown three times — once for React, once for Angular, and again for Vue — you already know the pain of UI fragmentation.

That’s exactly what inspired me to write this in-depth piece on HackerNoon:
👉 Web Components: Build UI Kits for All UI Frameworks

AND to distill all my expertise into a Udemy online course:
👉 Web Components: The Ultimate Guide from Zero to Hero

🧱 What’s the Big Deal?

Web Components are not “just another tech.” They’re a native browser standard — meaning:
🔷 No dependencies
🔷 Works with any frontend framework
🔷 Future-proof and evergreen.

With Custom Elements, Shadow DOM, HTML Templates, and Slots, you can encapsulate logic and styles while keeping your UI reusable across multiple projects — even if your teams use completely different stacks.

Here’s the core idea:

You write once — and reuse across React, Angular, Vue, Svelte, even jQuery apps.

Some things you’ll learn from the HackerNoon article:
🔷 Why Web Components are a natural fit for design systems
🔷 How to build cross-framework UI Kits that work without wrapping
🔷 How popular frameworks like Angular, React, and Vue already support Web Components
🔷 Mistakes to avoid when shipping Custom Elements at scale
🔷 How I used them to streamline dev teams with completely different tech stacks

No wrappers, no hacks, just real encapsulated components the browser understands.

💡 From Course to Code: Practical Use Cases

As the author of “Web Components: The Ultimate Guide from Zero to Hero”, I’ve taught hundreds of devs how to implement powerful design systems using Web Components — not only in greenfield apps but also as a migration strategy in legacy systems.

Start with the article above and learn the ropes. Then advance you can advance your knowledge with my online course.

By the end, you’ll have a portfolio of 2️⃣ powerful Web Components projects with clean, high-tech architecture. Moreover, you’ll be proud to showcase them as pet projects to impress your employers on Performance Reviews and interviews! 💼 ✨

Here we’ll also DIVE into the latest tools and techniques, from TypeScript, Storybook, Unit Testing, and CSS Modules to building UI Kits, Micro-Frontends, Localization, Accessibility, Monorepos, and more! And you’ll see how all of this can collaborate smoothly in the same project with Web Components:

I’ll show you how to build your own reusable UI Kits & Libraries! And lastly, we’ll craft a Micro-Frontend Architecture where we will build and connect multiple apps built in React, Vue and AngularJS. They will co-exist natively side-by-side and function as a single web app in complete synchronization and isolation from each other! 🔥

Final Words

Here’s something I always tell my students:

💬 “If you need reusage, don’t build yet another React component. Build a Web Component, and let React consume it.”

Web Components let you decouple your design system from your tech stack, speeding up development and onboarding time — especially in multi-team or micro-frontend environments.

If you’re tired of duplicating UI work across projects, this article might just change the way you ship frontend code.

And if you’re serious about mastering Web Components — don’t miss the full Web Components course I created.

Let’s make the web more reusable, one component at a time.

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