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Lit
Lightweight library for building Web Components
As of 29 August 2026, Lit is free to use. Lit is a simple, fast library for building Web Components with reactive properties and declarative templates. Softwr lists it under Web Development. Lit is made by Google / OpenJS Foundation, available on Web, API.
Overview
What Lit does
Lit is a lightweight JavaScript library that makes building Web Components straightforward and efficient. Built on Web Components standards, Lit adds reactivity, declarative templates, and thoughtful features without unnecessary bloat. Developers use Lit to create shareable components that work across frameworks, build consistent design systems, and develop sites or full applications with minimal dependency footprint. The library uses Shadow DOM for scoped styling and only updates the dynamic parts of the DOM, ensuring fast rendering and optimal performance.
What people use it for
- Building reusable component libraries across frameworks
- Creating design systems with scoped styles
- Developing progressive web applications with minimal dependencies
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Where it falls short
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- Smaller ecosystem compared to React or Vue
- Web Components adoption still growing in the industry
- Requires understanding of Shadow DOM concepts
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What people choose instead of Lit
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Capabilities
Features
Reactive properties
Declarative reactive properties for efficient re-rendering
Tagged template literals
Native JavaScript expressions for templates
Scoped styling with Shadow DOM
CSS encapsulation to prevent style conflicts
Web Components standard
Native custom elements compatible with any framework
Minimal bundle size
Only 5 KB minified and compressed
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Questions people ask
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Is Lit free to use?
Yes, Lit is open source and completely free under the BSD 3-Clause license.
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