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This new version of the [x] looks great! x - hot JS library of the week, substitute with Angular/React/Vue/Shoelace/Vite/Lit/... depending on the year and mont

This new version of the [x] looks great! x - hot JS library of the week, substitute with Angular/React/Vue/Shoelace/Vite/Lit/... depending on the year and month.

spankalee 3y ago
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.
- newlisp 3y ago
  It's been around and never got traction cause the project keeps changing direction and how things are done.
  - meiraleal 3y ago
    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).
  - spankalee 3y ago
    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.
ForkMeOnTinder 3y ago
This comment might have made sense 10 years ago. Nowadays JS frameworks are a tiny minority of release announcements on HN. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=true&query=release&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...
Freedom2 3y ago
What was hot in the previous weeks, each week? You seem to be informed (I'm mostly focused on backend tech) so I'm curious if you could share each week of the year and what JS tools were hot for each one?

This new version of the [x] looks great! x - hot JS library of the week, substitute with Angular/React/Vue/Shoelace/Vite/Lit/... depending on the year and month.

spankalee 3y ago

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.

newlisp 3y ago
It's been around and never got traction cause the project keeps changing direction and how things are done.
- meiraleal 3y ago
  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).
- spankalee 3y ago
  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.

ForkMeOnTinder 3y ago

This comment might have made sense 10 years ago. Nowadays JS frameworks are a tiny minority of release announcements on HN. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=true&query=release&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...

Freedom2 3y ago

What was hot in the previous weeks, each week? You seem to be informed (I'm mostly focused on backend tech) so I'm curious if you could share each week of the year and what JS tools were hot for each one?