It's easy to think of HTML Web Components as a recent feature, but it has roots that go all the way back to 1998.

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Web components have roots dating back to a 1998 W3C proposal that introduced the concept of componentization for building applications using reusable building blocks. The proposal emphasized breaking down complex applications into manageable chunks without requiring deep understanding of internal implementation details. While often perceived as a recent feature, the idea of style encapsulation and component-based architecture has been evolving for nearly 30 years in web development history.

HTML Web Components Proposal From 1998

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<p>I really recommend to use lemonadejs for this. By it owned web components a.k.a. custom elements are very hard to use and clunky but with this library it’s almost like react but with actual native implementation and custom web tags</p>
