diff --git a/core/static/webpack/ajax-select-index.ts b/core/static/webpack/ajax-select-index.ts
index dc2389b5..e64df216 100644
--- a/core/static/webpack/ajax-select-index.ts
+++ b/core/static/webpack/ajax-select-index.ts
@@ -1,16 +1,17 @@
 import "tom-select/dist/css/tom-select.css";
-import { InheritedComponent } from "#core:utils/web-components";
+import { inheritHtmlElement, registerComponent } from "#core:utils/web-components";
 import TomSelect from "tom-select";
 import type { TomItem, TomLoadCallback, TomOption } from "tom-select/dist/types/types";
 import type { escape_html } from "tom-select/dist/types/utils";
 import { type UserProfileSchema, userSearchUsers } from "#openapi";
 
-export class AjaxSelect extends InheritedComponent<"select"> {
-  widget: TomSelect;
-  filter?: <T>(items: T[]) => T[];
+@registerComponent("ajax-select")
+export class AjaxSelect extends inheritHtmlElement("select") {
+  public widget: TomSelect;
+  public filter?: <T>(items: T[]) => T[];
 
   constructor() {
-    super("select");
+    super();
 
     window.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", () => {
       this.loadTomSelect();
@@ -90,5 +91,3 @@ export class AjaxSelect extends InheritedComponent<"select"> {
     });
   }
 }
-
-window.customElements.define("ajax-select", AjaxSelect);
diff --git a/core/static/webpack/easymde-index.ts b/core/static/webpack/easymde-index.ts
index 5bc8a370..04a33f17 100644
--- a/core/static/webpack/easymde-index.ts
+++ b/core/static/webpack/easymde-index.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // biome-ignore lint/correctness/noUndeclaredDependencies: shipped by easymde
 import "codemirror/lib/codemirror.css";
 import "easymde/src/css/easymde.css";
-import { InheritedComponent } from "#core:utils/web-components";
+import { inheritHtmlElement, registerComponent } from "#core:utils/web-components";
 // biome-ignore lint/correctness/noUndeclaredDependencies: Imported by EasyMDE
 import type CodeMirror from "codemirror";
 // biome-ignore lint/style/useNamingConvention: This is how they called their namespace
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import EasyMDE from "easymde";
 import { markdownRenderMarkdown } from "#openapi";
 
 const loadEasyMde = (textarea: HTMLTextAreaElement) => {
-  const easyMde = new EasyMDE({
+  new EasyMDE({
     element: textarea,
     spellChecker: false,
     autoDownloadFontAwesome: false,
@@ -183,12 +183,10 @@ const loadEasyMde = (textarea: HTMLTextAreaElement) => {
   }
 };
 
-class MarkdownInput extends InheritedComponent<"textarea"> {
+@registerComponent("markdown-input")
+class MarkdownInput extends inheritHtmlElement("textarea") {
   constructor() {
-    super("textarea");
-
+    super();
     window.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", () => loadEasyMde(this.node));
   }
 }
-
-window.customElements.define("markdown-input", MarkdownInput);
diff --git a/core/static/webpack/utils/web-components.ts b/core/static/webpack/utils/web-components.ts
index 82d039eb..2899a5af 100644
--- a/core/static/webpack/utils/web-components.ts
+++ b/core/static/webpack/utils/web-components.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+/**
+ * Class decorator to register components easily
+ * It's a wrapper around window.customElements.define
+ * What's nice about it is that you don't separate the component registration
+ * and the class definition
+ **/
+export function registerComponent(name: string, options?: ElementDefinitionOptions) {
+  return (component: CustomElementConstructor) => {
+    window.customElements.define(name, component, options);
+  };
+}
+
 /**
  * Safari doesn't support inheriting from HTML tags on web components
  * The technique is to:
@@ -6,28 +18,33 @@
  *  pass all attributes to the child component
  *  store is at as `node` inside the parent
  *
- * To use this, you must use the tag name twice, once for creating the class
- * and the second time while calling super to pass it to the constructor
+ * Since we can't use the generic type to instantiate the node, we create a generator function
+ *
+ * ```js
+ * class MyClass extends inheritHtmlElement("select") {
+ *    // do whatever
+ * }
+ * ```
  **/
-export class InheritedComponent<
-  K extends keyof HTMLElementTagNameMap,
-> extends HTMLElement {
-  node: HTMLElementTagNameMap[K];
+export function inheritHtmlElement<K extends keyof HTMLElementTagNameMap>(tagName: K) {
+  return class Inherited extends HTMLElement {
+    protected node: HTMLElementTagNameMap[K];
 
-  constructor(tagName: K) {
-    super();
-    this.node = document.createElement(tagName);
-    const attributes: Attr[] = []; // We need to make a copy to delete while iterating
-    for (const attr of this.attributes) {
-      if (attr.name in this.node) {
-        attributes.push(attr);
+    constructor() {
+      super();
+      this.node = document.createElement(tagName);
+      const attributes: Attr[] = []; // We need to make a copy to delete while iterating
+      for (const attr of this.attributes) {
+        if (attr.name in this.node) {
+          attributes.push(attr);
+        }
       }
-    }
 
-    for (const attr of attributes) {
-      this.removeAttributeNode(attr);
-      this.node.setAttributeNode(attr);
+      for (const attr of attributes) {
+        this.removeAttributeNode(attr);
+        this.node.setAttributeNode(attr);
+      }
+      this.appendChild(this.node);
     }
-    this.appendChild(this.node);
-  }
+  };
 }
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
index 6bb7d717..deee110d 100644
--- a/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
     "target": "es6",
     "allowJs": true,
     "moduleResolution": "node",
+    "experimentalDecorators": true,
     "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true,
     "esModuleInterop": true,
     "types": ["jquery", "alpinejs"],