This will activate Nebula's experimental autoloader, which registers components on the fly as you use them. To learn more about it, or for other ways to install Nebula, refer to the [installation instructions](getting-started/installation).
**TL;DR** –we finally have a way to create [our own HTML elements](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/custom-elements.html) and use them in any framework we want!
Thanks to the popularity of frameworks such as Angular, Vue, and React, component-driven development has become a part of our every day lives. Components help us encapsulate styles and behaviors into reusable building blocks. They make a lot of sense in terms of design, development, and testing.
Unfortunately, _framework-specific_ components fail us in a number of ways:
- You can only use them in the framework they're designed for 🔒
- Their lifespan is limited to that of the framework's ⏳
- New frameworks/versions can lead to breaking changes, requiring substantial effort to update components 😭
Web components solve these problems. They're [supported by all modern browsers](https://caniuse.com/#feat=custom-elementsv1), they're framework-agnostic, and they're [part of the standard](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components), so we know they'll be supported for many years to come.
Nebula provides a collection of professionally designed, highly customizable UI components built on a framework agnostic technology. Why spend hundreds of hours (or more) building a design system from scratch? Why make a component library that only works with one framework?
If your organization is looking to build a design system, [Nebula will save you thousands of dollars](https://medium.com/eightshapes-llc/and-you-thought-buttons-were-easy-26eb5b5c1871). All the foundational components you need are right here, ready to be customized for your brand. And since it's built on web standards, browsers will continue to support it for many years to come.
Whether you use Nebula as a starting point for your organization's design system or for a fun personal project, there's no limit to what you can do with it.
If you need to support IE11 or pre-Chromium Edge, this library isn't for you. Although web components can (to some degree) be polyfilled for legacy browsers, supporting them is outside the scope of this project. If you're using Nebula in such a browser, you're gonna have a bad time. ⛷
Nebula was created in New Hampshire by [Cory LaViska](https://twitter.com/claviska). It's available under the terms of the [MIT license](https://github.com/onsonr/nebula/blob/next/LICENSE.md).
