It achieves this through the following elements:
- Development Experience (DX), Lit accelerates the development process by simplifying repetitive tasks, thus allowing the developer to focus all his effort on the implementation that the component must offer. Being part of the web standards, the tools for developers are the ones that integrate and evolve the browsers.
- Web Standards = Interoperability, the components we develop with Lit are ‘web components’, no more no less, there is no compilation step, they are not linked to any specific framework, their use is direct in the web browser. This guarantees its interoperability and current and future compatibility.
- Reactivitythrough the reactive properties we can easily model both the public and private API of our ‘web components’, through these properties we can receive the necessary “inputs” to be able to manage the different “states” of the component, guaranteeing that together with Its attributes everything responds in correspondence with the “inputs” it receives.
- State Management & Lifecyclewhen reactive properties receive a new “input”, Lit’s own life cycle is activated to render the necessary changes, allowing for state management and handling of any necessary side effects.
- Rendering, we arrive at the key point of our ‘web components’, which is the creation and management of DOM nodes, responsible for updating the user interface and therefore, crucial for interaction. It is precisely in this critical process that directly affects performance and, therefore, the user experience where Lit really shines.
Leveraging the power of “template literals,” a native feature of JavaScript, Lit can accurately distinguish between static and dynamic content.
In this way, it allows agile and efficient DOM manipulation, taking advantage of the native capabilities of web browsers and optimizing the user interface update process.
- Prepared for the futureOf all the points we have seen, perhaps the most important is to understand that Lit is built on a solid and secure foundation that is web standards, which guarantees its interoperability and flexibility over the current dependency on frameworks.
An example of this commitment to the future is ‘The Interop Project’, a collaborative initiative between the main web browser manufacturers that aims to ensure that browsers work coherently to improve web technologies in general, including, for example, of course, the ‘web components’.
In summary, Lit is a tool that simplifies and optimizes the development of ‘web components’. Its focus on web standards, robust reactivity, efficient state management, and optimized rendering make it an attractive option for creating dynamic, scalable, and flexible web interfaces.
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