The author was a core contributor of Google's Lit project: https://github.com/lit/lit
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God I love lithtml’s tagged template literals so much more than react’s JSX or Vue’s 3-in-one thing. It’s just html, in strings, in JavaScript. Lit is just a way to make custom elements easier. Man it’s gonna suck when I have to move on from my current gig and get my hands dirty with react again.
It's not. It's a custom HTML-like syntax with lots of custom and weird rules.
"Similar enough" is a far cry from "It’s just html, in strings, in JavaScript"
> anybody familiar with html and JS can pick it up
Just like JSX. But no one calls JSX "just HTML" (and in React, with rules of hooks, it's no longer "just JS"). In Solid JSX returns actual DOM nodes btw.
> it mostly just feels like building a huge html string.
Because that's what you essentially do. lit runtime parses your custom string, converts it to proper HTML, concatenates that into a string, and then dumps into the document with innerHTML (it does set up data bindings etc. , so it's more than just thay of course)