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Enter Shoelace an undoubtedly witty pin on "Bootstrap", that aims at bringing back direct usable components but by offering web-components by default, but it also offers web-components wrapped in a react component as well. This is at the core of building a framework interoperable component library, 1) use web-components, 2) wrap them in that specific language's syntax.
The other day I stumbled upon my dream project the other day json-schema-form-element (github, editor) which is heavily inspired by the react counterpart. It's exactly what I wanted to make. This project, json-schema-form-element is a masterclass in how to make a modern web-component-first / "authored" library which is also interoperable with all other frameworks.
Component libraries, love them or hate them it's how web developers quickly cobble together bits of code to form a semi-usable website. From Bootstrap to things like Material UI and more recently Radix UI and Tailwind. With the way that front-end frameworks have been proliferating there are a lot of frameworks out there React, Angular, Solid, Vue, Astro and Lit. How are we able to write framework agnostic component libraries? That way you don't need to re-learn and find alternatives to the things you love to use if you want to build an app in a different framework.
I've been very passionate about a project called react-jsonschema-form (github, editor). I personally hate writing forms, and love the idea of serializable components, schema, validation all in one. I've always wanted an alternative to this project that offered an alternative to react, and possibly the ability to render a schema form to static HTML (like ssg).
I've thought about this a lot while using other frameworks like Deno Fresh which uses Preact under the hood, mainly for JSX templating, but also for islands functionality. Within that framework you can't really use React component libraries. You start to think more about generating static HTML like this example from the Deno blog [A Whole Website in a Single JavaScript File, cont'd](https://deno.com/blog/a-whole-website-in-a-single-js-file-continued, which shows building a simple webpage with routes all in one typescript file, a site that serves no Javascript to the browser.
Lit is having a moment, one would say it's on fire 🔥🤣. It's being used everywhere from the web version of Photoshop to Microsoft's new windows app store. I think something clicked for me recently as to why lit is the major choice when it comes to the future of the web, and web components overall.
I've thought about this a lot while using other frameworks like Deno Fresh which uses Preact under the hood, mainly for JSX templating, but also for islands functionality. Within that framework you can't really use React component libraries. You start to think more about generating static HTML like this example from the Deno blog [A Whole Website in a Single JavaScript File, cont'd](https://deno.com/blog/a-whole-website-in-a-single-js-file-continued, which shows building a simple webpage with routes all in one typescript file, a site that serves no Javascript to the browser.