---
title: "Write your first web component | Opensource.com"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/write-your-first-web-component-opensource-com-vn43b96ps
source_url: https://opensource.com/article/21/7/web-components
type: article
source: "Open Source Way"
published: 2021-07-21T07:06:12.651Z
updated: 2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z
tags: ["javascript", "html"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 18
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# Write your first web component | Opensource.com

**[Open Source Way](https://daily.dev/sources/oss)** · 6 min read · 18 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Web components are a collection of open source technologies such as JavaScript and HTML. They allow you to create custom elements that you can use and reuse in web apps. The components you create are independent of the rest of your code, so they're easy to reuse across many projects.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://opensource.com/article/21/7/web-components>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@ghost** · 0 upvotes

> The weather card component with brief details on its lifecycle.

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