A Philosophy for Designing Components with Composition
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Argues for designing components by starting with concrete interaction patterns (uses ARIA as the canonical set — roughly 70 ARIA roles, with six key complex roles like listbox, combobox, grid, dialog, menu, tablist) and decomposing visuals into those roles; recommends style customization via parameterized SASS mixins split into categories (base, color, typography, animations, density) and notes CSS variables/parts limits; advocates API composition with decoupled pieces (example: mat-table + paginator + sort header fed by a single data source) to trade verbosity for flexibility and accessibility.
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