Why aren't web components there/more popular yet? They seem like a fantastic solution
It was a joke tho, I use custom elements heavily but never with ShadowDOM. It is indeed a PITA.
for which problem? They don't replace the need for a framework nor do they make writing in one easier. They don't make dev ex better. What is the actual use case? If they were highly useful, they would be used.
Maybe they aren't useful because the modern trend of web development is to not care about speed or size as much.
I don’t think a lot of people know about them, or if they do they have just heard about it in passing and have never actually used them.
Whatever the reason is they have a marketing problem that’s for sure.
There's a lot more options now, it would be good to have a way to have the best stand out.
Especially earlier on, web components were implemented without incorporating some of the major feedback from developers. What resulted was a low-level tool with some really awkward warts and APIs that was more-or-less unusable. (hence, one of the reasons why when web components discussions come up, lit is always mentioned since it needs that extra layer to paper over some of the warts)
TL;DR: it replaces some of the bad parts of Angular/React/etc. with its own set of bad parts that become more obvious only once you get deeper in.
Web Components are seriously cool and worth looking at.
Another confusion might be expecting an employer to educate you. That’s part of it but not the requirement.
Self-directed learning is critical to go with any formal learning.
First principles are needing to be taught where or before people are learning things like react. But they don’t, and get pulled into a world of complexity.