If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them? | Hacker News

The main reason is that they're too low-level to use directly.They do a lot, but stop just short of being useful without something of a framework on top. I tried hard to use them directly, but found that it was untenable without sensible template interpolation, and without helpers for event binding. Here's my shot at the smallest possible "framework" atop Web Components that make them workable (an