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A new series of web component reviews with live demos

October 30, 2014

We’ve been eagerly tracking the state of the web components community since we started Component Kitchen earlier this year. Over that time, it’s been exciting to watch the number of web components registered with Bower grow from about 40 to nearly 500 today.

The growth in our component catalog, however, has meant that it’s becoming harder and harder for someone like you to find interesting components just by browsing around. We want to help you find the interesting stuff. To do that, we’re making three changes to our site:

  1. We’ve begun dedicating a portion of our own time to sifting through the catalog of web components for components that are notable in some way. We want to highlight components that: solve a common user interface design problem in a way that can be readily adopted in your own apps, demonstrate how to write good web components, or show off what’s possible with web components.

    When we find a notable component, we’ll write a small capsule review for it. Along with the review, we’ll craft our own little demo of that component being used in some common way. This demo will let us confirm to ourselves that the component works as advertised, and will also give us a feel for the component’s strengths and weaknesses. We hope these little demos will make it easier for you to see on a small scale what a component might do for you.

  2. We’ve redesigned our home page to feature these component reviews and other news (like this post). The home page previously featured a complete list of all registered components; that list is now available in the Component Catalog section of our site.

  3. We’ve moved our temporary Component Kitchen blog feed in house. To get off the ground, we’d hosted our blog on a separate site, but you’ll now find it here. If you’d like to keep track of what’s happening in the world of web components, subscribe to our blog feed at this new location.

We’ll be scouring the catalog of components for interesting work, but if you’ve seen something you think is worth highlighting, please give us a shout at @ComponentK!