The lack of server-side rendering in web components has become a sort of folk belief that oft goes unquestioned. I am happy to report that the fears are unfounded.

Web components won't take web development by storm, or show us the One True Way to build websites. What they will do is let us collectively build a rich ecosystem of dynamic components that work with any web stack.

If we're building things that we want to work in five or ten or even 20 years, we need to avoid dependencies and use the web with no layers in between.