GIgildas·Jun 20, 2019
Google uses LitElement (version 2.0.1) [1] to create the page. You can see it by typing `litElementVersions` in the JavaScript console.
[1] https://github.com/Polymer/lit-element
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LEGACY REPO. This repository is for maintenance of the legacy LitElement library. The LitElement base class is now part of the Lit library, which is developed in the lit monorepo.
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LEGACY REPO. This repository is for maintenance of the legacy LitElement library. The LitElement base class is now part of the Lit library, which is developed in the lit monorepo.
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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5 sourcesMy suggestion to you is to look into web components (e.g. https://github.com/Polymer/lit-element) for theoretically re-usable components.
React is optional for web development.
In With React 16.8, React Hooks are available in a stable releaseWhere did you get this information from?
This is not true, there is no string conversion. There is even separate syntax for setting props vs attrs.
Check out the readme here.
https://github.com/Polymer/lit-element
I also normally use redux in my WC applications.
In React as a UI Runtime"component tree is bound to the DOM as strings"
You can pass data as props instead of attrs, same as with react - https://github.com/Polymer/lit-element. I wonder why this pop's up all the time.
It is true that polymer had quite a bit of limitations, but there are other solutions like stencil, lit-element, svelte or vue (yes it can output WC's) that do not have those problems.
Lit-html in latest version I think is only outperformed by inferno from popular solutions.
In React as a UI Runtime- LitElement + Redux for frontend (web components) https://github.com/Polymer/lit-element
- Golang + Postgres for backend
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