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Lit: a library for building fast, lightweight web components

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277 points merqurio | 4 comments | 03 Sep 25 06:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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kubb ◴[03 Sep 25 08:11 UTC] No.45113384[source]▶
For the frontend work that I did, Lit was a godsend. It really helps you build components and apps without getting in the way.

In comparison, Angular is a monster, and React is designed for the old browser capabilities, and is now staying around by inertia, not by inherent quality.

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iamsaitam ◴[03 Sep 25 10:19 UTC] No.45114105[source]▶
"React is designed for the old browser capabilities and is now staying around by inertia, not by inherent quality." this makes me feel old and I guess React is famous for supporting Internet Explorer /s
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kubb ◴[03 Sep 25 11:02 UTC] No.45114347[source]▶
React is 12 years old. That’s a significant chunk of anyone’s life.
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1. troupo ◴[03 Sep 25 11:25 UTC] No.45114484[source]▶
Web components are 14 years old, and still have the most basic issues and problems that even a 6-month-year-old framework would ashamed to have.
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2. kubb ◴[03 Sep 25 12:13 UTC] No.45114805[source]▶
I await your in depth critique on the front page.
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3. evilduck ◴[03 Sep 25 17:33 UTC] No.45118434[source]▶
There have been many that have hit the front page over the years. If you're not aware of a technology's shortcomings then you're a bad proponent of said technology. They're also almost the antithesis of what the HTMX crowd also preaches as "the one true way" and meanwhile, Wordpressers will continue developing the majority of the world's websites blissfully unaware that either technology even exists.

https://dev.to/ryansolid/web-components-are-not-the-future-4...

https://dev.to/richharris/why-i-don-t-use-web-components-2ci...

https://daverupert.com/2023/07/why-not-webcomponents/

https://paularmstrong.dev/blog/2023/03/11/why-we-do-not-writ...

https://nolanlawson.com/2024/09/28/web-components-are-okay/

https://www.zachleat.com/web/good-bad-web-components/

https://mayank.co/blog/web-components-considered-harmful/

https://adamsilver.io/blog/the-problem-with-web-components/

https://web-highlights.com/blog/are-web-components-dead/

along with some criticisms from very knowledgeable people:

https://x.com/youyuxi/status/1839833110164504691 (author of Vue) https://x.com/Rich_Harris/status/1839785839036887361 (author of Svelte)

Web Components solve a few problems and introduce a few others, use them when they make sense for your needs.

4. troupo ◴[03 Sep 25 20:42 UTC] No.45120195[source]▶
You think that in 14 years many critiques from many authors didn't appear on the front page? It's not a big deal to reach the front page of HN.

No worries, web components themselves have a very nice critique in the form of their own community report https://w3c.github.io/webcomponents-cg/2022.html listing all the issues that many people had been taking about for literal years before this report.