Web components question

[Giorgi]

Hi, I went through all your UI products and noticed that all of your libraries are native to their respective frameworks. I was wondering when you were researching and architecting, what was the main reason behind deciding to ditch the web components and go with the “vanilla” framework style? Would not you be able to achieve AOT and Treeshaking with Web components' wrappers?

[T. Tsonev]

Hi Giorgi,

Wide support for Web Components is only a recent development and then there's IE, which we still have to support.

We also rely on the framework(s) for rendering and some other features, not covered by the web platform. This deeper integration, for example, allows for server-side rendering to work seamlessly in Angular applications.

That said, Web Components make great sense for some widgets like inputs and charts. This is an area we're actively researching.

I hope this makes sense.

Best Regards,
T. Tsonev
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