Front-end development moves at a break-neck pace. This is made evident by the myriad articles, tutorials, and Twitter threads bemoaning the state of what once was a fairly simple tech stack. In this article, I’ll discuss why Web Components are a great tool to deliver high-quality user experiences without complicated frameworks or build steps and that don’t run the risk of becoming obsolete. In subsequent articles of this five-part series, we will dive deeper into each of the specifications.

The clickbait headline got you here, so let’s make this worth your while! I have no idea whether this is the fastest conference website in the world but I also don’t know that it isn’t; and I’ve spent a completely unreasonable amount of time trying to make it be the fastest conference website in the world. I’m also the creator of AMP, a web component library for making reliably fast websites, and this website is my playground to try out new techniques for future optimizations that I can apply to my day job. Also, fast websites have better conversion rates, which in our case means: sell more tickets.

Automatic hyphenation on the web has been possible since 2011 and is now broadly supported. There is however far more control available to designers than just turning on hyphens.

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I suppose the lesson I’m taking from this is, well, we need to do much, much more than meditating. I agree with Marcy Sutton: accessibility is a civil right, full stop. Improving the state of accessibility on the web is work we have to support. The alternative isn’t an option. Leaving the web in it’s current state isn’t fair. It isn’t just.