5: The Web Components Community

Web Components are a set of emerging and rapidly changing technologies alter the way many developers are starting to build web applications. Zeno Rocha (@zenorocha), a dominant force in the front end development community talks with hosts Erik Isaksen (@eisaksen) & Christian Smith(@anvilhacks) on how developers can get started building with these technologies today & how to build their own components, tooling & using the Github & Bower communities, and other front end developer goodness.

Zeno, began a small project, CustomElements.io ( http://customelements.io/), that was meant to track his and others Web Components. CustomElements.io, now used by Mozilla as their X-Tags (http://www.x-tags.org/) registry, has become much more than that and is now a central place for developers to share, publish, and maintain their Web Components. The project spawned an incredible amount of support from the web development community that grew into several other related projects such as ‘WebComponents.org’ ( http://webcomponents.org/ ) & the boilerplate Yeoman project ‘generator-element’ ( https://github.com/webcomponents/generator-element ).