Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderI had lit in a project at work and not having to deal with it anymore is just great. We already have another heavier component framework to do the actual application stuff anyway, so having two just because somebody wanted to optimize their resume was such a drag. It all looked nice in theory, but one thing shadow DOM makes worse is A11y, because element ids are now scoped and all the missing describe-by, label-for for things that should link…
Maintainer of Lit here! A few of the unique things I try to emphasize when talking about Lit because it's so different from a framework: Lit is just helpers to make web components. It's implementation detail. On the outside the components are just standard HTML elements. Because of that, Lit makes no assumption that other elements you're using in your components are made with Lit. This low coupling preserves interop, and makes it easy to incrementally adopt Lit, and incrementally…
Love you all in the polymer slack. Everyone is so helpful. I'm excited (and kinda scared) for lit V3.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 525
- Total comments
- 320
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-04-21 | Lit – Simple. Fast. Web Components | d4kmor | 16 | 2 |
| 2021-04-23 | Lit: Simple Fast Web Components | xiaq | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-05-24 | Lit – Simple, Fast Web Components | mhoad | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-09-21 | Simple, fast web components – Lit.dev | NicoJuicy | 6 | 0 |
| 2022-01-05 | Simple. Fast. Web Components | zffr | 3 | 0 |
| 2022-02-08 | Lit | tambourine_man | 1 | 0 |
| 2022-08-17 | Lit, 5KB Tiny Web Components Library | excerionsforte | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-07-20 | Lit: Simple. Fast. Web ComponentsFirst breakout | tambourine_man | 211 | 141 |
| 2024-10-18 | Lit: Simple. Fast. Web Components | ksec | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-09-03 | Lit: a library for building fast, lightweight web componentsHall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | merqurio | 280 | 177 |