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Lit: a library for building fast, lightweight web components

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277 points merqurio | 1 comments | 03 Sep 25 06:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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jfagnani ◴[03 Sep 25 08:08 UTC] No.45113365[source]▶
Lit maintainer here. I should be going to bed, but I'll answer any questions if people have any!

Not sure why Lit showed up on the front page tonight :)

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1. polyrand ◴[03 Sep 25 08:23 UTC] No.45113441[source]▶
Hi! Not really a question, but just an appreciation message. I haven't used the full "Lit" package a lot, but "lit-html" is incredibly useful.

I use it in almost all my personal websites. And when I don't use it, I end up reinventing half of it and realize I should have used it from the start. This command is in most of my projects:

  curl -L https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/lit-html@3/lit-html.js -o ${project}/lit-html.js
I've never felt I'm using a framework or anything that deviates from Vanilla JS and valid HTML, which is why using it hardly causes any more cognitive load than using regular string templates and JavaScript functions. Which is something that I can't say about other frontend tools.

Another thing I like from Lit is that with the CDN bundle, it's straightforward to experiment and use all the features without needing a build step.