open-wc VS lit

npm init @open-wc@latest Need to install the following packages: @open-wc/[email protected] Ok to proceed? (y) y _.,,,,,,,,,._ .d'' ``b. Open Web Components Recommendations .p' Open `q. .d' Web Components `b. Start or upgrade your web component project with .d' `b. ease. All our recommendations at your fingertips. :: ................. :: `p. .q' `p. open-wc.org .q' `b. @openWc .d' `q.. ..,' See more details at https://open-wc.org/init/ '',,,,,,,,,,'' Note: you can exit any time with Ctrl+C or Esc ✔ What would you like to do today? › Scaffold a new project ✔ What would you like to scaffold? › Web Component ✔ What would you like to add? › Testing (web-test-runner) ✔ Would you like to use typescript? › Yes ✔ What is the tag name of your web component? … testing-components ./ ├── testing-components/ │ ├── .vscode/ │ │ └── extensions.json │ ├── demo/ │ │ └── index.html │ ├── src/ │ │ ├── index.ts │ │ ├── testing-components.ts │ │ └── TestingComponents.ts │ ├── test/ │ │ └── testing-components.test.ts │ ├── .editorconfig │ ├── .gitignore │ ├── LICENSE │ ├── package.json │ ├── README.md │ ├── tsconfig.json │ ├── web-dev-server.config.mjs │ └── web-test-runner.config.mjs ✔ Do you want to write this file structure to disk? › Yes Writing..... done ✔ Do you want to install dependencies? › Yes, with npm

Very much still a thing, https://open-wc.org/ is a good resource for examples and best practices.

I have this design system project for a company, I need to make web components and instead of using open-wc.org pre-built, I chose to go Vite.

Nice. We have data with meaning. Now let's create the presentation layer (aka the UI!) and then let's add interactivity to the UI, so we can have feedback when actually simulating an exam (aka the Frontend!). Since in ING we are advocates of Web Components, I always wanted to give this stack a try for side projects. I jumped right into open-wc.org and used the npm generator. Everything worked precisely as expected. It was a breeze since my Chapter is using lit every. single. day. So I could finally get some mileage myself, in writing lit. At work, as a Chapter Lead, I prefer to spend my time more effectively for the team, rather than coding new features by myself; my chapter does it better anyway (#proud).

I suggest following these best practices for creating a custom web element: https://open-wc.org/

Open Web Components is a great tool for accessing open-source web components and is very easy to set up with their quickstart guide and easy to understand documentation.

This application is one of many applications out there that are dipping their toes in the land of web components. Web components are still very new and ever-growing. While I have been developing on HAX-the-Web, I am also the Project Manager for HAXCamp 2022. < hax-camp > is an unconference dedicated to all things Web Components!This year's event is being student-run and we anticipate there being discussions about openwc, lit, performance, element composition, css, hax.psu, pedagogy, and design systems. If this work flow is something that you are interested in, I would encourage signing up for this event. It is much more than this, larger than you know and a way to connect with students, faculty, staff, and professional in the industry.

That is the reason why I experiment with the TiniJS framework for a while. It is a collection of tools for developing web/desktop/mobile apps using the native Web Component technology, based on the Lit library. Thank you the Lit team for creating a great tool assists us working with standard Web Component easier.

https://github.com/lit/lit/tree/main/packages/labs/virtualiz...

actually, looking at it (https://lit.dev/), i do exactly that.

I also define a `render()` and extend my own parent, which does a `replaceChildren()` with the render. And, strangely, I also call the processor `html`

I'll still stick with mine however, my 'framework' is half-page of code. I dislike dependencies greatly. I'd need to be saving thousand+ lines at least.

Here, I don't want a build system to make a website; that's mad. So I don't want lit. I want the 5 lines it takes to invoke a dom parser, and the 5 lines it takes do define a webcomp parent.

I rather like https://lit.dev/ for web components so far.

For the reactivity stuff, you might want to read https://frontendmasters.com/blog/vanilla-javascript-reactivi... - it shows a bunch of no-library-required patterns that, while in a number of cases I'd much rather use a library myself, all seems at least -basically- reasonable to me and will probably be far more comprehensible to you than whatever I'd reach for, and frameworks are always much more pleasant to approach after you've already done a bunch of stuff by banging rocks together first.

I work on Lit, which I would hesitate to call a framework, but gives a framework-like DX for building web components, while trying to keep opinions to a minimum and lock-in as low as possible.

It's got reactivity, declarative templates, great performance, SSR, TypeScript support, native CSS encapsulation, context, tasks, and more.

It's used to build Material Design, settings and devtools UIs for Chrome, some UI for Firefox, Reddit, Photoshop Web...

https://lit.dev if you're interested.

I am more a fan of the augmented style because it doesn't entrap you in dev lock-in to platforms.

The problem with frameworks, especially web frameworks, is they reimplement many items that are standard now (shadowdom, components, storage, templating, base libraries, class/async, network/realtime etc).

If you like the component style of other frameworks but want to use Web Components, Google Lit is quite nice.

Google Lit is like a combination of HTML Web Components and React/Vue style components. The great part is it is build on Web Components underneath.

[1] https://lit.dev/

From the comments I see here, it seems like people expect the Webcomponents API to be a complete replacement for a JS framework. The thing is, our frameworks should start making use of modern web APIs, so the frameworks will have to do less themselves, so can be smaller. Lit [0] for example is doing this. Using Lit is very similar to using React. Some things work different, and you have to get used to some web component specific things, but once you get it, I think it's way more pleasant to work with than React. It feels more natural, native, less framework-specific.

For state management, I created LitState [1], a tiny library (really only 258 lines), which integrates nicely with Lit, and which makes state management between multiple components very easy. It's much easier than the Redux/flux workflows found in React.

So my experience with this is that it's much nicer to work with, and that the libraries are way smaller.

[0] https://lit.dev/