Expand docs on allDefined()

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Unlike traditional frameworks, custom elements don't have a centralized initialization phase. This means you need to verify that a custom element has been properly registered before attempting to interact with its properties or methods.
### Individual components: `customElements.whenDefined()` { #when-defined}
You can use the [`customElements.whenDefined()`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CustomElementRegistry/whenDefined) method to ensure a specific component is ready:
```ts
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const button = document.querySelector('wa-button');
```
### All Web Awesome components: `allDefined()` { #all-defined }
When working with multiple components, checking each one individually can become tedious. For convenience, Web Awesome provides the `allDefined()` function which automatically detects and waits for all Web Awesome components in the DOM to be initialized before resolving.
```ts
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// All Web Awesome components on the page are ready!
```
#### Advanced Usage
By default, `allDefined()` will wait for all `wa-` prefixed custom elements within the current `document` to be registered.
You can customize this behavior by passing in options:
- `root` allows you to pass in a different element to search within, or a different document entirely (defaults to `document`).
- `match` allows you to specify a custom function to determine which elements to wait for. This function should return `true` for elements you want to wait for and `false` for those you don't.
- `additionalElements` allows you to wait for custom elements to be defined that may not be present in the DOM at the time `allDefined()` is called. This can be useful for elements that are loaded dynamically via JS.
Here is an example of using `match` and `root` to await registration of Web Awesome components inside an element with an id of `sidebar`, plus a `<my-component>` element if present in the DOM, and `<wa-slider>` and `<other-slider>` elements whether present in the DOM or not:
```js
import { allDefined } from '/dist/webawesome.js';
await allDefined({
match: tagName => tagName.startsWith('wa-') || tagName === 'my-component',
root: document.getElementById('sidebar'),
additionalElements: ['wa-slider', 'other-slider']
});
```
:::warning
`additionalElements` will only wait for elements to be registered — it will not load them.
If you're using the autoloader plus custom JS to inject HTML dynamically, **you need to make sure your JS runs _before_ the `await allDefined()` call**,
otherwise you could run into a chicken and egg issue:
since the autoloader will not load elements until they are present in the DOM, the promise will never resolve and your JS to inject them will not run.
:::
## Attributes & Properties
Many components have properties that can be set using attributes. For example, buttons accept a `size` attribute that maps to the `size` property which dictates the button's size.