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Agreed. I get excited to see "headless components" until I read the fine print that it's locked into framework x (usually React). I wish there was a robust headless AND framework-agnostic component library (preferably relying on Lit or Stencil).

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Think thing is that Ionic have proven this can work with the massively underrated Ionic Framework (built with Stencil, which they also built). I just wish they expanded a little further into desktop UI components and provided an no/low styled variant - I dislike Material as a base style, it's too opinionated.

They are 50% of the way to building a universal mobile+ desktop ui toolkit.

Do the same with Ionic Capacitor, make a desktop version, and that would be an incredible improvement over Electron - it uses the OS supplied web view.

Nobody wants Shadow DOM though. Using ::part is always clunky and we’re all lying to ourselves when we say “oh no that’s the feature”.

The whole shadcn/tailwind philosophy of having you own your components is the future.

Wait, but that is the feature. My issue with Shadow DOM is that "base" styles (like fonts and colors applied to tag selectors) don't come through, not that I can't override any given style from outside.

I'm not really sure what you mean by "own your own components"?

You don't need to use Shadow DOM though?

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