The web has grown from just representing documents into also representing rich applications. Until recently, the web technology stack was behind this shift. Web components are a set of new web standards to finally catch up by providing a clean way of providing new widgets on the web - and they start to become ready for prime time!This webcast introduces the four web standards that make up web components along with live code demos, then gives a practical example and how to use and style them in a web application. It also demoes a few real-world cases of web components and concludes with a status quo overview of the standards and browser support, giving a list of potential pitfalls that I hit in the daily work with web components.