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• Zustand Felt Off. Redux Was a No. So I Built My Own.
  2 projects | dev.to | 1 Jul 2026

  I had built a form library for Lit before, so I thought I might build one for React too, as a learning experience.

• I Built a Voice Widget That Fills Any HTML Form — Here’s How
  1 project | dev.to | 25 Mar 2026

  TypelessForm — an npm package that adds voice input to any existing HTML form. It's a web component built with Lit. You add one custom element to your page, a mic button appears, users speak, AI fills the fields.

• Why is Visual Difference Testing still so hard?
  2 projects | dev.to | 24 Mar 2026

  I am a web component developer, so I also have to wait until each of my web components is defined and has run its first update cycle before taking a screenshot. I use Lit which definitely helps a ton. Lit has a handy updateComplete property that is a Promise that resolves true each time the component render cycle is completed. But what if there are child web components in the shadow root? Waiting until every component has completed its render cycle is another way that false positives can plague us. There is just no simple way to know for sure, so we setTimeout for some random number and hope its long enough.

• Kigumi: Same components, any stack
  2 projects | dev.to | 24 Mar 2026

  Kigumi takes a different approach. It’s built on Web Awesome, a library of 70+ production-ready web components powered by Lit. These are real HTML custom elements that the browser understands natively. Web Awesome also ships with an excellent design token system and layout CSS classes, built entirely on CSS custom properties, giving you full control over colors, spacing, typography, and more.

• Headless Storybook with Lit
  3 projects | dev.to | 19 Mar 2026

  Let's take Lit, a Web Component framework that my team uses as an example. An experimental server-side rendering feature exists that relies on the declarative shadow DOM, but for correct hydration, components must be adhere to certain lifecycle constraints. For instance, if certain rendering logic is placed in improper lifecycle callbacks, a component may render as expected in Storybook but fail during server-side rendering. This results in significant time spent debugging discrepancies between development and production. Tooling for static analysis, such as linting and lifecycle enforcement, is relatively immature due to the feature's experimental status, and replicating server-side rendering-specific conditions in Storybook is currently not feasible.

• Introducing Backlit: Lit SSR for Drupal, Hold the Node
  2 projects | dev.to | 19 Mar 2026

  Well, introducing Backlit -- a Drupal module that server-renders Lit web components with Declarative Shadow DOM. No Node.js, no containers, no external services. Two lines to install, zero infrastructure to maintain.

• I built 130+ web components for myself. Now they're free for everyone.
  2 projects | dev.to | 9 Mar 2026

  I'm a big fan of Lit and Shoelace (I've even donated to Shoelace — seriously, go check it out if you haven't — and consider donating to them, I have). They just didn't cover everything I needed for my projects, so I started building my own.

• You can make up HTML tags
  13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Dec 2025

  https://lit.dev/

  That's the premise behind Lit! I've been using it to build out a project recently and it's quite good, simpler to reason about than the current state of React imo.

  It started at google and now is part of OpenJS.

• 📻 I built an infinite 90s boombox with Gemini + Lyria (and it has an AI DJ!)
  1 project | dev.to | 17 Nov 2025

  Framework: Lit (Web Components) + Vite

• When to emit events for stateful components
  2 projects | dev.to | 19 Oct 2025

  This decision is a bit tricky to explain, so I‘ll show some code (in Lit because that‘s what I like and use daily.

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