This sample demonstrates how to write a Web component and include it in a custom Experience Builder widget.
How to use the sample
Clone the sample repo and copy this widget's folder (within widgets) to the client/your-extensions/widgets folder of your Experience Builder installation.
How it works
A Web component is defined in my-component.js. This is a JavaScript file - not a TypeScript file - because Experience Builder is compiling the .ts files to ES5, but Web components work on >= ES6 only. The first line uses the ECMAScript 2015 class syntax to create a new Class that extends from HTMLElement.
class MyComponent extends HTMLElement {
In the constructor, a shadow DOM is attached to the custom element using this.attachShadow({mode: 'open'}). Setting the mode to open means that elements of the shadow root are accessible from JavaScript outside the root.
Finally, register the Class using window.customElements.define('my-component', MyComponent). This allows the custom component to be used by name (my-component in this case) on the page.
In widget.tsx, to use the custom component that was defined above, simply import it (import './my-component') and then use it in the JSX in either the render function (if using Class-style widgets) or in the return value if using functional component style. In this case, we are using the functional component style by exporting a function instead of a Class:
export default function Widget(props: AllWidgetProps<{}>){
More information on functional components can be found here.