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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: 0.224s | source
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kavaruka ◴[03 Sep 25 07:52 UTC] No.45113285[source]▶
I have been using Lit in production for 3 years now. I think it is the best abstraction over the web components API out there.
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selectnull ◴[03 Sep 25 08:00 UTC] No.45113325[source]▶
Same here.

I have actually wrote a few web components by hand in an environment where I didn't want any external dependencies and when that requirement was dropped I really liked how easy was to convert them to LitElement (and how much nicer it is to work with them).

I also have embraced the shadow DOM which is a default, but I think it's more trouble than it's worth. Now I use LitElement without shadow DOM and it works great as well.

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brazukadev ◴[03 Sep 25 11:08 UTC] No.45114386[source]▶
Same about the shadowDOM. The only criticism I have about Lit is that the creators think shadowDOM is amazing and people not liking it are using it wrong. Lit lacks a good direction and someone with vision leading it but it became the technical pet project of a few.
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1. selectnull ◴[03 Sep 25 14:05 UTC] No.45115983[source]▶
The ability to locally scope styles is a great feature of shadow DOM. For that alone I can see why it's being pushed.

It's trivially easy to create Lit components without shadow DOM so I don't really care and use both.