Web Components — Complete Guide
Web Components — Complete Guide: free step-by-step lesson with examples, common mistakes, and interview tips — part of JavaScript Tutorial on Toolliyo Academy.
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JavaScript Tutorial · Lesson 68 of 100
Web Components
Basics ✓ → Objects & data ✓ → Async & DOM ✓ → Advanced → Tools → Projects
Advanced · 4 — Production skills · ~10 min · JS Advanced
What is this?
Web Components are custom HTML tags built with custom elements, shadow DOM, and templates — reusable widgets without React.
Why should you care?
Design systems can ship
See it live — copy this example
Paste into an HTML file or the browser console (F12). Use Run below when the live editor is available.
class HelloBox extends HTMLElement {
connectedCallback() {
this.textContent = "Hello from " + this.tagName;
}
}
customElements.define("hello-box", HelloBox);
// <hello-box></hello-box>
Run Example »
Edit the code below and click Run to see the result in Toolliyo’s live editor.
What happened?
- connectedCallback runs when element enters the page.
- define registers the tag name.
Practice next
- Define hello-box and use in HTML.
- build connectedCallback.
- Add shadow DOM for scoped CSS.
- Pass attribute value to custom element via observedAttributes.
- Clone template content inside shadow root.
Remember
customElements.define Shadow DOM for styles Native reusable tags
ScriptVerse design system
Shared
Outcome: Web components ship reusable UI across heterogeneous ScriptVerse products.
Interview prep for this lesson
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