On: What We Need Instead of "Web Components"

[afavour]

1) that’s not JSX, it just looks like it

2) it’s still an external library, which is OPs point

[dtagames → afavour]

I don't think Lit counts as a framework. It's much lower-level plumbing. And tagged template literals are part of the browser.

[troupo → dtagames]

But lit's DSL isn't a part of the browser. Neither is lit's data binding/reactivity. Nor lit's rules on directives. Nor lit's tasks. Nor lit's context. Nor...

[auggierose → troupo]

Yes, I would agree with that. And that's why "running natively in the browser" is not a remarkable feature of web components, because you will need something like lit anyway for using web components in a productive way. So you might as well use React, or any of the other billion frameworks.