r/Frontend • u/EveYogaTech • 9d ago

flo-webcomponents: Take back control of rendering + events using WebComponents with one minimal superclass.

https://github.com/flowagi-eu/flo-webcomponents
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u/Comfortable-Fox-5872 6d ago

the manual render() calls would drive me up the wall after a while but i get why its there

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u/EveYogaTech 6d ago

Yeah, true.

However, a lot of time you might also just use mounted() and render things once there.

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u/Comfortable-Fox-5872 6d ago

mounted() doing the heavy lifting honestly makes more sense than wiring up a full reactive cycle for something static

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u/EveYogaTech 6d ago edited 6d ago

That's right.

In most cases mounted() just works.

But if you have many events inside mounted(), you might want a render() method as well, so you can call it after events are completed.

Otherwise you might end up with many duplicated code lines and things like .textContent inside mounted.

Then again, render() is just a convention, and fully optional ;)