Shoelace is an evolved tool from super-popular Bootstrap tool (name-play: Shoelaces / Bootstrap)
Now it is evolving again, along with also super-popular Font Awesome, that is also often combined with Bootstrap.
From Shoelace to Web Awesome featuring Cory LaViska (JS Party #322)
- Shoelace.style
- Font Awesome
- Web Awesome
Web Awesome is the fancy pants new name for Shoelace,
the most popular free and open source library of web components
Thanks to the popularity of frameworks such as Angular, Vue, and React, component-driven development has become a part of our every day lives. Components help us encapsulate styles and behaviors into reusable building blocks. They make a lot of sense in terms of design, development, and testing.
Unfortunately, framework-specific components fail us in a number of ways:You can only use them in the framework they’re designed for 🔒
Their lifespan is limited to that of the framework’s ⏳
New frameworks/versions can lead to breaking changes, requiring substantial effort to update components ðŸ˜
Web components solve these problems. They’re supported by all modern browsers, they’re framework-agnostic, and they’re part of the standard, so we know they’ll be supported for many years to come.
This is the technology that Shoelace is built on.
