QUESTION Notification Bar / Popup Manager ($$)

[shawn_a]

components are for end users , not developers, this is slowly changing and will probably be more so in future versions.
But without using plugins the only way to use components is hardcoding in your template files.

2 alternatives for using components is dynpages and sa hook components plugins.

dynpages allows calling components per page using shortcodes
my hook components plugin lets you call components on plugin hooks, without having to write a plugin.