lit

Lit is a simple library for building fast, lightweight web components. (by lit)

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  • Web Component shadow roots x design system. Constructable style sheets?
    2 projects | dev.to | 6 Mar 2025
    As HAX project lead, our platform works exclusively through the building and nesting of 1,000s of Web Components and most (~95%) use ShadowRoots via Lit / LitElement.
  • The Modern 2025 Web Components Tech Stack
    4 projects | dev.to | 3 Mar 2025
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  • 60 Best JavaScript Libraries for Building Interactive UI Components
    8 projects | dev.to | 22 Feb 2025
    Lit lit.dev Fast, lightweight Web Component library.
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    7 projects | dev.to | 19 Feb 2025
    My favourite Custom Elements Manifest generator is the one by open-wc. The setup is straightforward: you create a config file and tell it where to find your components. It even has support for Lit out of the box.
  • Web awesome: "Shoelace 3.0" open source web components
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Feb 2025
    And it is built with https://lit.dev a fantastic library !

    > since Material Web seemed to quickly end up in maintenance mode

    This is really unfortunate to say the least - the engineering team has done a fantastic job there, but apparently no backing from Google despite the nice promise at the the launch of Material Web.

  • Svelte 5 is not JavaScript
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Feb 2025
    If you're looking for a library to build components and apps with that does let you use plain JavaScript - to the degree that you can write working components in your devtools console - check out Lit: https://lit.dev/

    Lit's used by pretty major apps like Photoshop, Reddit, Home Assistant, and The Internet Archive.

  • Firebase: deploy a React application with Firebase Hosting
    5 projects | dev.to | 14 Feb 2025
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  • Moving on from React, a Year Later
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jan 2025
    I was down on the ergonomics of Web Components for a few years, but recent work has me actually excited for them as the present now. You can get some nice "Progressive Enhancement" experiences with them now.

    If you are starting fresh, I'd consider taking a look at one of the lightweight options like lit [0] or FAST [1] for building your own. (Later this week or this weekend, I'm going to try to document building Web Components with my Butterfloat [2] because so far it is turning out great in my current hobby project and about to the point where I'm going to recommend it to production projects.)

    [0] https://lit.dev/

    [1] https://fast.design/

    [2] https://worldmaker.net/butterfloat/

  • Standards First Web Framework
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jan 2025
    I help maintain Lit[1], which I consider a very standards-first non-framework.

    With Lit you can build full apps with standard and plain JS, CSS, and HTML; standard web components; and no build tools.

    I don't immediately see how this is any more standards-first, especially when it mentions Markdown, tooling, and a CLI. I don't actually really see what exactly this even is from this landing page. It would help to show something up front.

    [1]: https://lit.dev

  • How do you do, fellow web developers? A growing disconnect
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Dec 2024
    It's not anymore!

    Multiple options around, I personally love this

    https://lit.dev/

    You can develop that element and then just drop that onto your static page and you're golden

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lit/lit is an open source project licensed under BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License which is an OSI approved license.

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