[topic] What are web components?

[justinfagnani]

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Description of request

From the outline the "What are web components?" page will cover:

• Custom Elements
• Shadow DOM
• Standard JS Modules

It should also cover some overview and component concepts that span custom element and shadow DOM specs, and goals of the APIs. <template> is included in many overviews of web components, although it is pretty separate and not required for implementing web components and wasn't included in the outline for that reason.

This section is part of the docs MVP milestone, and can initially be a single page to reach that goal, though each standard might grow enough over time to warrant it's own sub-page.

Existing web component overview/introduction content we can draw inspiration from:

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components
• https://www.webcomponents.org/introduction
• https://polymer-library.polymer-project.org/3.0/docs/devguide/custom-elements
• https://polymer-library.polymer-project.org/3.0/docs/devguide/shadow-dom
• https://web.dev/shadowdom-v1/
• https://web.dev/custom-elements-v1/
• https://github.com/webcomponents-cg/docs-and-guides/blob/main/docs/about/introduction.md

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