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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: 0.204s | source
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Muromec ◴[03 Sep 25 09:59 UTC] No.45113989[source]▶
I had lit in a project at work and not having to deal with it anymore is just great. We already have another heavier component framework to do the actual application stuff anyway, so having two just because somebody wanted to optimize their resume was such a drag.

It all looked nice in theory, but one thing shadow DOM makes worse is A11y, because element ids are now scoped and all the missing describe-by, label-for for things that should link to other side of the fence are a massive pain in the ass.

Big part of it is just skill issue on our part of course.

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1. soupy-soup ◴[06 Sep 25 14:51 UTC] No.45149778[source]▶
I've been working on a legacy server-rendered app that has a bunch of ajax calls, and stock web components and their shadow DOM has been super helpful to keep the mess at bay. Most of the work is actually making the app more accessible, actually.

The trick is that the components really do need to be self contained, and you need to use slots and custom attributes to bridge the gaps. Styling is the most annoying part for me, but I just include the same global imports that the main page has.