Web components are a powerful and versatile technology that can help web developers build complex and scalable user interfaces. However, creating and maintaining web components can be a challenging task, especially when it comes to managing the various dependencies and tools required to build and deploy them.

This is where Minze, a lightweight and flexible build tool for web components, comes into play. Minze is designed to simplify the development and deployment process of web components by providing a simple and intuitive command-line interface that automates many of the tedious and repetitive tasks involved.

With Minze, developers can easily create and manage web components using a variety of popular web technologies, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Minze provides a number of features to help streamline the development process, including live reloading, automated testing, and optimized builds for production deployment.

And Vue.js is a popular JavaScript framework that allows developers to build dynamic and interactive web applications. One of the key features of Vue.js is its component-based architecture, which enables developers to create reusable and modular UI components that can be easily combined to create complex user interfaces.

In this article, we will take a closer look at Minze and how it can be used to build web components. We will provide a step-by-step guide on how to create web components using this powerful tool and use the component inside Vue.

Preparation

Prepare your project, I used Vite.js to start the project and don't forget to install Minze in the project.

npm create vite@latest name-vue-app --template vue

Move to your directory project and install Minze.

npm install minze

Create first component

Open directory src/components and create a folder named minze and inside folder minze create your first component.

src/
└─ components/
   └─ minze/
      ├─ ...
      └─ my-element.js

import { MinzeElement } from 'minze'

class MyElement extends MinzeElement {
  // html template
  html = () => `<h1>My very own component!</h1>`

  // scoped stylesheet
  css = () => `
    h1 {
      color: red;
    }
  `
}
export default MyElement;

Register the component

once you create a component, you must register the component. please open the file "main.js".

// main.js
import { createApp } from "vue";
import Minze from "minze";

import "./style.css";
import App from "./App.vue";
import MyElement from "./components/minze/my-element";

Minze.defineAll([MyElement]);

createApp(App).mount("#app");

Update config

Before you use the component, you have to tell the Vue Compiler that the component is a native custom element. Please open vite.config.js

// vite.config.js
import { defineConfig } from "vite";
import vue from "@vitejs/plugin-vue";

// https://vitejs.dev/config/
export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [
    vue({
      template: {
        compilerOptions: {
          isCustomElement: (tag) => tag.includes("-"),
        },
      },
    }),
  ],
});

And finally you can use component inside Vue Project. Please note that you must use the kebab-case style to indicate that it is a custom web native component.

<!-- app.vue -->
<template>
  <my-element></my-element>
</template>

Conclusion

Minze is a library for creating custom native web components easily and quickly like native components along with shadow DOM. Due to its agnostic nature, Minze is capable of combining with any javascript framework.

I think maybe it's not the best practice to build app with Vue.js framework but for the experience of the developers it's worth a try.

Don't forget to read the documentation of Minze to explore the features and APIs that have been provided.

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