One of the biggest changes to the way we write Web apps has got to be components. This paradigm shift has allowed for web apps to scale to heights we have not been able to foresee. For the most part, this has been for the better. Components have many benefits such as testability, simplification of larger problems, maintainability, and of course reusability. That last benefit is one that a lot of us gravitate to.

We all love to preach clean code and the evils of repeating ourselves, but when we start to focus on code reuse as the primary benefit of components, we start solving the wrong problems. Let’s journey together on why this happens and how to avoid it in our applications.