--- title: Building a Design System with React Web Components description: Building a Design System with React Web Components is a simple way to build a universal design system with React. We compiled React to Web Components using... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-design-system-with-react-web-components-jqc6yosx0 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Building a Design System with React Web Components | daily.dev og:description: Building a Design System with React Web Components is a simple way to build a universal design system with React. We compiled React to Web Components using... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-design-system-with-react-web-components-jqc6yosx0 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/JqC6yOsx0.png og:image:alt: Building a Design System with React Web Components og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Building a Design System with React Web Components **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 1 min read · 85 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary Building a Design System with React Web Components is a simple way to build a universal design system with React. We compiled React to Web Components using wrappers, polyfills and tooling to make them work in every context. The implementation turned out tougher than we anticipated but we're happy with the result. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@alwaisy** · 3 upvotes > Much interesting. Write react components without react Js bundle. Web components are amazing. **@saanvi\_ts** · 0 upvotes > Great article...!! 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