solid VS lit

Compare solid vs lit and see what are their differences.

solid

A declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces. (by solidui)

lit

Lit is a simple library for building fast, lightweight web components. (by lit)
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solid lit
52 141
31,047 17,535
1.6% 2.1%
8.8 9.4
1 day ago 2 days ago
TypeScript TypeScript
MIT License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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solid

Posts with mentions or reviews of solid. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-18.
  • Resources for understanding the Solid compiler
    3 projects | /r/solidjs | 18 Apr 2023
    The reactivity core, which is in https://github.com/solidjs/solid This is where you'll see the reactivity runtime implementation. Take note that Solid's reactivity doesn't rely on compile-time magic
  • Are there any go backends that work with solid?
    1 project | /r/solidjs | 14 Apr 2023
    I did try this but I'm not sure what you mean with the ssrLoadFrom. Is there any documentation on this, all I could find was the examples folder in solidjs: solid-ssr?
  • Solid JS compared to svelte?
    2 projects | /r/solidjs | 17 Mar 2023
    This is very true. I really hate svelte single file components. But then I tried JSX for breaking things down. I love solid but I don't feel really good about angle brackets within C style syntax. I saw this Scala library that stick with simple statically typed function syntax than html tags. I don't understand why people still wants to stick with xml like tags. In laminar markup is written like this scala div( h1("Hello world", color := "red"), inputCaption, input(inputMods, name := "fullName"), div( ">>", button("Submit"), "<<" ) ) I wish solid team makes their HyperScript syntax as performant as JSX.
  • Building an E-commerce Store: A Step-by-Step Guide with Solidjs and Medusa
    3 projects | dev.to | 8 Mar 2023
    What is Solid?
  • Learn how to install SolidJS with Flowbite and Tailwind CSS
    6 projects | dev.to | 20 Feb 2023
    import logo from './logo.svg'; import styles from './App.module.css'; import 'flowbite'; function App() { return (
    logo

    Edit src/App.jsx and save to reload.

    Learn Solid, Tailwind CSS and Flowbite Toggle Flowbite modal
    ); } export default App;
  • Does solid start support CSR or SSG if so how?
    3 projects | /r/solidjs | 14 Feb 2023
    There is example of each technique in Solid's main repo: https://github.com/solidjs/solid/tree/main/packages/solid-ssr/examples
  • Proposal for separation of concerns and immutable state
    1 project | /r/solidjs | 26 Jan 2023
    I basically came up with an idea that is much like flutter's bloc pattern, and probably waht ryansolid was referring to in his reply to this issue when he said he made his own version of redux that codifies state changes instead of immutable state.
  • Flutter 3 の状態管理 (State、ステート): アプローチ (概念)
    3 projects | dev.to | 7 Jan 2023
  • SolidJS Crash Course - Building a REST API Client - Part 1
    1 project | dev.to | 1 Jan 2023
  • Stores and indexed accessors
    1 project | /r/solidjs | 20 Dec 2022
    After seeing how inactive this sub was, I took it to Github: https://github.com/solidjs/solid/discussions/1440

lit

Posts with mentions or reviews of lit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-13.
  • I've created yet another JavaScript framework
    4 projects | dev.to | 13 Apr 2024
    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.
  • Web Components e a minha opinião sobre o futuro das libs front-end
    4 projects | dev.to | 4 Apr 2024
  • Show HN: I made a Pinterest clone using SigLIP image embeddings
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Feb 2024
    https://github.com/lit/lit/tree/main/packages/labs/virtualiz...
  • What We Need Instead of "Web Components"
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Dec 2023
    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.

  • Web Components Aren't Framework Components
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Dec 2023
    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.

  • Reddit just completed their migration out of React
    2 projects | /r/reactjs | 8 Dec 2023
  • Web Components Eliminate JavaScript Framework Lock-In
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Nov 2023
    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.

  • HTML Web Components
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Nov 2023
    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/

  • Web Components Will Outlive Your JavaScript Framework
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Oct 2023
    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/

  • Lit – a small responsive CSS framework
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Oct 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing solid and lit you can also consider the following projects:

qwik - Instant-loading web apps, without effort

Svelte - Cybernetically enhanced web apps

SvelteKit - web development, streamlined

stencil - A toolchain for building scalable, enterprise-ready component systems on top of TypeScript and Web Component standards. Stencil components can be distributed natively to React, Angular, Vue, and traditional web developers from a single, framework-agnostic codebase.

Angular - Deliver web apps with confidence 🚀

Vue.js - This is the repo for Vue 2. For Vue 3, go to https://github.com/vuejs/core

Preact - ⚛️ Fast 3kB React alternative with the same modern API. Components & Virtual DOM.

astro - The web framework for content-driven websites. ⭐️ Star to support our work!

htmx - </> htmx - high power tools for HTML

inferno - :fire: An extremely fast, React-like JavaScript library for building modern user interfaces