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    I may not have time for an answer. But, maybe start with considering why you want "separate, self contained, importable components" to begin with. How does component-izing some stuff on a page make your team's job easier? Commented Mar 9, 2020 at 18:23
  • Thanks, @svidgen. I am building a Content Development Environment so, in a wider context, a component here represents a user-generated "plug-in" which may (or may not) be reused on different pages by the same site, or by other sites. The most immediately apparent benefits of such component-ization are plug-and-play reuse across different documents, sites & web-apps and component-level scoping, such that an individual developer might work on a given component without needing to know anything else about the overarching site(s) the component will be "plugging into". Commented Mar 9, 2020 at 18:38
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    A good place to start your guidelines, IMO, is just be to restate that as guidelines. Maybe, "If what you're developing may be re-used or benefit from it's own scoping, component-ize it." ... Bear in mind, it still requires experience to recognize when things are likely reusable, benefit from internal scoping, or whatever other guiding quality you come up with. Maybe also consider what the with problems with "over-componentization" are and state as counterbalancing guidance. Commented Mar 10, 2020 at 16:30
  • Yes, you are absolutely correct, I am seeking to avoid over-componentizing my setup. This is the main thrust of my question above: while I know I can turn every last nut and bolt into a component, I feel this is going overboard and I want to establish if there are any rules of thumb I can refer to, to help me decide when to turn something into a component and when not to. Commented Mar 10, 2020 at 17:28