Should Web Components Play a Larger Role in Cross-Platform Design Systems?

[mbuckley]

I have a question about GitHub's approach to component JavaScript implementation. I understand that you use web components/catalyst wrapped with a ViewComponent when JavaScript interactivity is required (such as for autocomplete functionality). I'm wondering: do you still believe that the component library should export ViewComponents as the primary interface, or have your thoughts evolved regarding web components playing a larger role and being used directly by consuming applications?

For context, we have several applications that don't use Ruby on Rails, which has us reconsidering how to provide our design system components to these applications. We're exploring two main options:

1. Reimplement the component specifications in a different technology, like React
2. Build universal web components (like <auto-complete />) that could be used across all our applications directly

My main concern with fully embracing web components is that we might lose the benefits that Ruby/React-first development provides.