98: Server Side Web Components

The Web Platform Podcast

• Episode: 98: Server Side Web Components
• Website: The Web Platform Podcast
• Feed URL: http://thewebplatformpodcast.com/rss
• Duration: 00:56:18
• Published: 2016-07-22 14:43

Software developer at Softwire, Tim Perry (@pimterry), has created a set of “Server Components”. These are simple, lightweight tools for “composable HTML rendering in Node.js, broadly following the Web Components browser specification, but on the server side”. Rob Dodson (@rob_dodson), Google Developer Advocate & Polymer Legend & Trey Shugart (@treshugart), Atlassian superstar & SkateJS creator, round out the the guests for this episode discussing the reality & the possibilities of using Web Components on the server. Additionally, we look at other projects like the ‘Express Web Components’ by Jordan Last that take a different approach to this by running Chromium on the server side.

Resources

• SS rendering for Web Components - https://scotch.io/tutorials/server-side-web-components-how-and-why
• Server Components
• • Info - https://pimterry.github.io/server-components/
  • Code - https://github.com/pimterry/server-components
• Scram.js - https://github.com/scramjs
• WebComponentsJS Polyfills - https://github.com/webcomponents/webcomponentsjs/tree/v0.7.22
• Angular Universal - https://github.com/angular/universal

Express Web Components - https://github.com/scramjs/express-web-components