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Web Components in Oracle APEX

Few years back, I have learned about Web Components. However, I did not get a chance to work on Web Components yet. It's been on my do to list to experiment Web Components, especially with in APEX. My current staycation gave me an opportunity to do this experiment. Web Components Web Components is a suite of different technologies allowing you to create reusable custom elements — with their functionality encapsulated away from the rest of your code — and utilize them in your web apps. In other words, using Web Components, we can create custom elements which are completely self contained with all HTML, CSS and JavaScript (JS) encapsulated in one place. And then we can use these new custom element in our web applications with out the risk of code conflicts. Functionality wise, they are similar to jQuery widgets, however to implement Web Components we don't need any additional libraries, all modern browsers natively support underlying technologies. If you are new to Web Components