Hacker News Reader

Lit's been around, starting as lit-html and lit-element, since 2017. Chrome, Firefox, Photoshop, Reddit, and more are built with it, so it's definitely not a library of the week, it just has less hype than others.

View on HN

It's been around and never got traction cause the project keeps changing direction and how things are done.

Lit has not really changed direction or how things are done. In the release presentation today the exact same code was shown that runs in lit-element, Lit 2 and Lit 3.

That's the opposite of my impression using Lit for the past 6 months. A thriving community, well-maintained packages and libraries, old content most of the times works the same and it won't change after 3.0 release because the API didn't change. Besides that, the code keeps getting smaller so with a reduced interface it becomes easier to reason about.

Now compare it to React, Angular and Vue: the 3 of them had a complete change of course at some point and lost a good amount of documentation and ecosystem while having to maintain both for some time. That never happened with Lit (although it seems to have being created by the same team that maintained Polymer).

Reply on news.ycombinator.com