Alex Russell introduced Web Components in 2011. React was released in 2013.
Web Components originally used a view-model architecture, which I would guess was heavily inspired by the most popular JS framework leading up to 2011: Backbone.
React was a massive departure from Backbone, and sadly the Web Components spec was developed before React had matured and changed the landscape.
Web Components originally used a view-model architecture, which I would guess was heavily inspired by the most popular JS framework leading up to 2011: Backbone.
React was a massive departure from Backbone, and sadly the Web Components spec was developed before React had matured and changed the landscape.