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Awesome lit-html

A curated list of awesome lit-html resources.

lit-html — an efficient, expressive, extensible HTML templating library for JavaScript.

Contents

• General resources
• Community
• Overview
• Implementations
  • Renderers
  • LitElement Extensions
• Components
• Starter Templates
• IDE Plugins
• Tools
• Examples
• Videos
• Podcasts
• Blogs
• Inspired Solutions
• Other awesome resources

General resources

• Documentation
• GitHub repository

Community

• lit-html Twitter
• #lit-html - Channel in Polymer Slack

Overview

• Lightning-fast templates & Web Components: lit-html & LitElement

Implementations

Sorted by creation date (oldest first).

• lit-element - Simple base class for creating fast, lightweight Web Components.
• @gluon/gluon - Lightweight library for building Web Components and applications.
• lit-any - Partials library, which uses lit-html to compose views and forms from smaller templates.
• lit-html-element - Base class for creating Web Components using lit-html.
• fit-html - Combination of lit-html, Web Components and Redux.
• lit-html-brackets - A lit-html extension that uses a bracket syntax similar to Angular's template syntax.
• @littleq/element-lite - A take on using lit-html and Polymer's property mixin.
• @popeindustries/lit-html-server - Render lit-html templates on the server as Node.js streams.
• ullr - Building Web Components with Functional Programming Using lit-html.
• ce-decorators - TypeScript library for building Web Components based on decorators proposal and lit-html.
• @appnest/lit-translate - Lightweight i18n library providing a lit-html directive.

Renderers

The following libraries allow using lit-html as a renderer, while also providing alternatives such as HyperHTML or JSX.

• @corpuscule/lit-html-renderer - lit-html based renderer for Corpuscule.
• @moleculejs/molecule-lit - lit-html based renderer for Molecule.
• @skatejs/element-lit-html - lit-html based renderer for SkateJS.
• icomponent-lit - lit-html based renderer for icomponent.

LitElement Extensions

These are not implementations of lit-html itself but rather community extensions of the official LitElement base class.

• @dabolus/localized-lit-element - LitElement extension that provides easy l10n out of the box.
• @apollo-elements/lit-apollo - LitElement integrations with Apollo GraphQL.
• @morbidick/lit-element-notify - Small mixin for LitElement to get easy change events via the properties getter.
• styled-lit-element - Provides the lit-css integration with LitElement base class.

Components

• Material Web Components - Material Design implemented as Web Components.
• UI5 Web Components - Enterprise-flavored sugar on top of native APIs!
• Wired Elements - Collection of elements that appear hand drawn.
• Chartjs Web Components - Web components for chartjs.

Starter Templates

• PWA Starter Kit - Starter template by the Polymer team.
• open-wc-starter-app - Starter app based on Open Web Components Recommendations.
• generator-lit-element-next - Generator for developing your next custom element with latest LitElement.

IDE Plugins

• VSCode lit-html plugin - Syntax highlighting and IntelliSense for lit-html template strings.
• es6-string-html - Another VSCode extension which adds syntax highlighting support for HTML in ES6 multiline strings.
• vim-html-template-literals - Syntax highlighting and indentation for lit-html.
• TypeScript lit-html Plugin - TypeScript server plugin that adds IntelliSense for lit-html template strings.

Tools

• babel-plugin-template-html-minifier - Babel plugin for minifying HTML in tagged template strings.
• eslint-plugin-lit - ESLint plugin for lit-html template strings.
• rollup-plugin-minify-html-literals - Rollup plugin to minify HTML in tagged template strings.
• rollup-plugin-lit-css - Rollup plugin to import CSS files as LitElement tagged css template strings.
• lit-loader - LitElement Single File Component loader for Webpack.
• generator-lit-element - Yeoman generator for creating LitElement based Custom Elements.
• Nutmeg - CLI tool to build, test, and publish vanilla Web Components with a little spice.
• open-wc - Set of recommendations to help you generate, test, lint, demo, and publish Web Components.

Examples

• lit-demos - Examples for using the lit-html library and LitElement base class.
• lit-html workshop

Videos

• Efficient, Expressive, and Extensible HTML Templates (Polymer Summit 2017)
• lit-HTML (Chrome Dev Summit 2017)
• VDOM vs lit-html - HTTP203

Podcasts

• The Web Platform Podcast 159: lit-html - HTML Templates via JavaScript Template Literals - An episode with the lit-html creator Justin Fagnani.

Blogs

• Building a chat with Twilio, lit-html, Parcel and TypeScript
• Making a fullstack CRUD app with LitHTML, Redux, Express, and Webpack
• The future of Polymer & lit-html
• A night experimenting with Lit-HTML
• LitElement To Do App
• A new, lean way of creating web apps
• LitElement with Rollup, Babel & Karma
• Let's Build Web Components! Part 5: LitElement

Inspired Solutions

These libraries do not depend on lit-html, but are inspired by some of its concepts. They use html and css tagged template literals, and leverage the benefits of the same or similar IDE Plugins for syntax highlighting.

• hybrids - UI library for creating Web Components with simple and functional API.
• lit-ntml - Lightweight and modern templating for SSR in Node.js, inspired by lit-html.
• htm - Hyperscript Tagged Markup: JSX alternative using standard tagged templates, with compiler support.
• lite-html - A modern replacement for VirtualDOM rendering engines.
• lit-css - A tool to distribute styles via ES modules.

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