news — Web Standards

May 8
From React to native web with nanotags: a migration that saved 100 KB
How Evil Martians replaced React and Ark UI with Web Components and a 2.5 KB wrapper library.
April 20
Fully local code embeds
A web component for isolated code sandboxes without third-party embeds.
April 17
Introducing masonry-gridlanes-wc: a native-first masonry web component
A web component with native CSS masonry support and a JavaScript fallback.
April 15
Modern CSS feature support for shadow DOM
Tracking CSS feature parity across the shadow DOM boundary.
April 13
Progressive web components
An HTML-and-CSS-first library for building web components that hydrate with JS.
April 9
Under the hood of MDN’s new frontend
Web components, Lit, and server-side rendering replace the old React SPA.
March 31
Form-associated custom elements in practice
Retrofitting AgnosticUI with ElementInternals and form validation.
February 10
Reference Target: having your encapsulation and eating it too
New proposal lets shadow DOM internals be referenced via the host without breaking encapsulation.
February 2
How to dynamically install custom elements
Auto-import only the elements you actually use, and keep upgrades working after DOM changes.
January 26
Writing custom elements with lit-html
Light DOM components, plus signals-based state, without committing to full Lit.
January 13
A production-ready web component starter template
Skip boilerplate with scaffolded tests, CI, and secure npm publishing.
November 25, 2025
Performance monitoring for web components
Using the User Timing API to track real-world component performance