React inside EmberJS: Extend your legacy Front End using React-based Web Components

J Hinter
6 min readFeb 14, 2021

A couple of months ago my company decided to get rid of their legacy Ember frontend in favor of React.

With limited team capacity, we wouldn't have been able to keep on implementing new customer features in Ember and in parallel rebuild the whole frontend in React. That’s why we decided to take a gradual approach: We’re implementing new features in React, before actually replacing our whole Ember app. By exporting these React widgets as Web Components, we can easily integrate and use them…

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