Light DOM

I’ve expressed my love of the Light DOM recently. In Web Components land, there are plenty of reasons to stick with it, but admittedly, there is stuff you’re giving up by not using Shadow DOM. The biggest to me is the usage of slots which is a nice way to handle HTML abstraction. Why my […]

First: the Light DOM is just… the regular DOM. When people talk about native Web Components, the Shadow DOM comes up a lot. I have extremely mixed feelings about the Shadow DOM. On one hand, it’s a powerful scoping tool. For example, CSS applied inside the Shadow DOM doesn’t “leak” outside, meaning you can be […]