Web Component Wrapper

Problem

Design systems built in one framework can’t be used in applications built with different frameworks. Teams are forced to rebuild the same components multiple times or lock into a single framework. Migrating from one framework to another requires rewriting every component, making incremental migration impossible.

Solution

Wrap web components in framework components to provide better integration and type safety. This bridges custom elements with framework-specific patterns.

Example

This demonstrates wrapping web components in framework-specific components to provide better integration, type safety, and enable cross-framework component reuse.

import { createComponent } from '@lit/react';
import { MyElement } from './my-element.js';

// Wrap web component for React integration
const MyReactComponent = createComponent({
  tagName: 'my-element',      // Custom element tag name
  elementClass: MyElement,     // Web component class
  react: React                 // Framework for integration
});

// Use like native React component with props and type safety
<MyReactComponent name="World" />

Benefits

• Enables cross-framework component reuse without duplication.
• Allows gradual migration between frameworks.
• Makes design systems framework-agnostic and future-proof.
• Provides standard web platform APIs that work everywhere.

Tradeoffs

• Adds wrapper layer that can complicate debugging.
• May lose framework-specific features or optimizations.
• Requires understanding both web component and framework APIs.
• Can have performance overhead from bridging frameworks.