Lit Functional components

Lit Functional Components aims to provide a simple wrapper around Lit components, offering a streamlined development experience without introducing every React-like syntax and feature.

Installation

Yarn

yarn add lit-functions

Npm

npm install lit-functions

Usage

Component and props

The useProp function is similar to useState in React. In Lit, properties and attributes are used, eliminating the need for a separate useState. Instead, define Lit properties, and whenever a property changes, the component re-renders. The type of the properties is inferred from the type argument.

If you would like to react on property change, you can either use updated or usePropChanged hook. It's very similar to useEffect, you should provide a callback and the list of dependencies in string format.

The component function creates a custom web component, with the name generated from the function name.

import { html, css } from "lit";
import litLogo from './assets/lit.svg'
import viteLogo from '/vite.svg'
import component, { Props } from "../../src";

const style = css``

function myElement({ useProp, usePropChanged }: Props) {
  const [count, setCount] = useProp('count', {type: Number}, 0);
  const [docs, _] = useProp('docs', {type: String}, 'This is some test docs');

  usePropChanged(() => { console.log('count value changed')}, ['count']);

  return html`
    <div>
      <a href="https://vitejs.dev" target="_blank">
        <img src=${viteLogo} class="logo" alt="Vite logo" />
      </a>
      <a href="https://lit.dev" target="_blank">
        <img src=${litLogo} class="logo lit" alt="Lit logo" />
      </a>
    </div>
    <slot></slot>
    <div class="card">
      <button part="button" @click="${() => setCount(count + 1)}">
        count is ${count}
      </button>
    </div>
    <p class="read-the-docs">${docs}</p>
  `
}

component(myElement, [style]);

Lifecycle Methods

onMount and onUnMount

These functions correspond to connectedCallback and disconnectedCallback, respectively, and are high-order functions.

function myElement({onMount, onUnMount}: Props) {
  onMount(() => {
    console.log('connectedCallback');
  });

  onUnMount(() => {
    console.log('disconnectedCallback');
  });
}

updated and attributeChangedCallback

The method names remain the same for clarity.

function myElement({updated, attributeChangedCallback}: Props) {
  updated((changedProperties: PropertyValues) => {
    console.log('updated props', changedProperties);
  });
}

meta

If you need direct access to the Lit instance, use the meta property.

function myElement({meta}: { meta: LitElement }) {}

Handling Events

Manage events with dispatchEvent from the props, which dispatches an event on the current Lit element.

import { html, css } from "lit";
import litLogo from './assets/lit.svg'
import viteLogo from '/vite.svg'
import component, { Props } from "../../src";

const style = css``

function myElement({dispatchEvent}: Props) {
  function dispatchMyCustomEvent() {
    dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent('foo-event', { detail: { foo: 'foo' }}));
  }

  return html`
    <button part="button" @click="${() => dispatchMyCustomEvent()}">
      dispatch an event
    </button>
  `
}

component(myElement, [style]);

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for the contribution guidelines