ll without a framework.
            Performance when putting hundreds of them on a page was so bad that I ended up going back to React.
        </p>
        <p>
            But as I've gotten deeper into vanilla web development I started to realize that maybe I was just using it wrong.
            Perhaps web components can be fast, if built in a light-weight way.
            This article is an attempt to settle the question "How fast are web components?".
        </p>

        <h3>The lay of the land</h3>
