Web Components enable custom element creation and sharing on a whole new level that has not really been seen to date but is so desperately needed. Developers of everything from simple webpages to complex applications are using Web Components to deliver new functionality, new behaviors, and new designs. Web Components are a big part of the future of the web.
There are lots of articles detailing how to build a basic Web Component, but almost no article details how to solve some of the gotchas once you start down that road. That's what this article serves to do; point out some of the things every Web Component developer is overlooking and to which they should probably be giving more consideration.
The APIs which make up the Web Components standards (Custom Elements, ShadowDOM, etc) are intentionally low level APIs. As such they are not always the most clear or concise in their understandability. Additionally,
