Lit: a library for building fast, lightweight web components

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 :)

Any whispers of something like lit being made part of the webcomponents standard?

Web components are nice because they're browser-native, but they don't support reactivity, which in hindisight, is a massive oversight, issue, whatever you want to call it - it's hindered adoption.

Lit is nice because there's a very straightforward progression from web components.

Lit has always been designed partially as a prototype for where web component standards could go in the future. That's a big reason Lit is fairly conservative and un-opinionated. It doesn't try to undo or paper-over any of the DOM APIs, but add to them instead.

There is a proposal in TC39 for native signals, which I think would make a huge dent towards library-less reactivity.

I'm also working on a proposal for native reactive templating which would more-or-less obsolete lit-html. I wrote about the idea some on my blog:

- The time is right for a DOM templating API https://justinfagnani.com/2025/06/26/the-time-is-right-for-a...

- What should a native DOM templating API look like? https://justinfagnani.com/2025/06/30/what-should-a-dom-templ...