Self-contained web components through serverless computing

Abstract

Web Components are an essential building block for modularizing large and complex web applications into smaller pieces. Due to the web's nature, functionality encapsulated into Web Components consist of presentation and business logic. The former executes inside the user agent and the latter on the server-side. Many Web Components are not self-contained because they require to integrate their business logic into your backend or to use externally hosted third-party services. In this paper, we describe an approach of how to utilize Serverless Computing to enable self-contained web components by deploying Web Component business logic as cloud-hosted functions.