UX as an API

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Argues that APIs should ship white‑label UI fragments alongside data, demonstrates building a progressive web app by composing web components (lit‑element), documenting them in Storybook, and theming via CSS custom properties and the new ::part selector. Shows a chatbot fragment integrated into a site, then restyles it to match the host. Notes gotchas: CORS for module imports, dependency collisions (rollup recommended), bundle size and performance, and unresolved security/trust boundaries for auth/payment.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:53William Bartlett
3. 1:28Mandatory Hand Raising Time
4. 6:11The Goal
5. 6:54Micro-frontends
6. 7:33Third Party APIs
7. 10:40Examples Embedding
8. 13:25Related Solutions
9. 16:04Web Components
10. 44:59Gotchas
11. 46:17Conclusion
12. 47:02Going Further

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