# Lion

Library of white-label web components and base classes for building a design system, written with Lit.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/lion/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-27
Updated: 2026-10-28
Listed since: 2026-10-27

## Record

### Links

- home: https://lion.js.org/
- repository: https://github.com/ing-bank/lion
- docs: https://lion.js.org/guides/how-to/get-started

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: ING Bank NV
- maintainerType: unknown
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2020
- hqCountry: NL

### Kind

- category: ui-library
- hosting: not applicable
- language: javascript
- runtime: unknown
- runtimeMin: not applicable
- basedOn: lit

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: localize system for translated text and number and date formatting

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: not applicable
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: npm

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 0
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-19

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 1972
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: 9019
- contributors: 161
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 3
- dependentPackages: 6

### Sources

- urls: https://lion.js.org/ (read 2026-10-27)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/ing-bank/lion (read 2026-10-27)
- urls: https://lion.js.org/guides/how-to/get-started (read 2026-10-27)
- firstRelease: https://lion.js.org/blog/ing-open-sources-lion (read 2026-10-27)
- maintainer: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ing-bank/lion/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-27)
- hqCountry: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ing-bank/lion/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-27)
- i18n: https://lion.js.org/fundamentals/systems/localize/overview (read 2026-10-27)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/ing-bank/lion (read 2026-10-27)
- category: https://lion.js.org/blog/ing-open-sources-lion (read 2026-10-27)
- basedOn: https://lion.js.org/ (read 2026-10-27)
- installMethod: https://lion.js.org/guides/how-to/get-started (read 2026-10-27)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/ing-bank/lion (read 2026-10-27)
- license: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ing-bank/lion/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-27)
- licenseModel: https://api.github.com/repos/ing-bank/lion (read 2026-10-27)
- currentMajor: https://registry.npmjs.org/@lion%2fui (read 2026-10-27)
- latestReleaseDate: https://registry.npmjs.org/@lion%2fui (read 2026-10-27)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/ing-bank/lion (read 2026-10-27)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/ing-bank/lion/contributors (read 2026-10-27)
- npmWeeklyDownloads: https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/range/2026-09-28:2026-10-04/@lion/ui (read 2026-10-28)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/@lion%2fui (read 2026-10-27)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/@lion%2fui (read 2026-10-27)

## Notes

Lion is a white-label, open-source, framework-agnostic component library for building a design system, with its components written on Lit. It is published on npm as @lion/ui and installed with npm. ING Bank NV publishes it, and the project opened its code in 2020.

The repository is a monorepo. @lion/ui is the package the get-started guide installs, and the other packages in the same repository are published separately.

## Worth knowing

The library is below 1.0.0. Its versioning page says that for versions below 1.0.0, minor upgrades may contain breaking changes.

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