# Lit

JavaScript library for building web components with reactive properties and declarative HTML templates.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/lit/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-22
Updated: 2026-10-25
Listed since: 2026-10-22

## Record

### Links

- home: https://lit.dev
- repository: https://github.com/lit/lit
- docs: https://lit.dev/docs/
- x: https://x.com/buildWithLit
- bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lit.dev

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: The Lit Project
- maintainerType: unknown
- parent: OpenJS Foundation
- firstRelease: unknown
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

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

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

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

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: BSD-3-Clause

### Releases

- currentMajor: 3
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-05-14

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 21860
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: 3965350
- contributors: 194
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 16100
- dependentPackages: 5162

### Sources

- urls: https://lit.dev (read 2026-10-22)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/lit/lit (read 2026-10-22)
- urls: https://lit.dev/docs/ (read 2026-10-22)
- maintainer: https://lit.dev/docs/ssr/overview/ (read 2026-10-22)
- parent: https://lit.dev (read 2026-10-22)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/lit/lit (read 2026-10-22)
- category: https://lit.dev (read 2026-10-22)
- runtime: https://lit.dev/docs/ssr/overview/ (read 2026-10-22)
- installMethod: https://lit.dev/docs/getting-started/ (read 2026-10-22)
- license: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lit/lit/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-22)
- licenseModel: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lit/lit/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-22)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/lit/lit/releases (read 2026-10-22)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/lit/lit/releases (read 2026-10-22)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/lit/lit (read 2026-10-22)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/lit/lit/contributors (read 2026-10-22)
- npmWeeklyDownloads: https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/point/last-week/lit (read 2026-10-22)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/lit (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/lit (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

Lit is a JavaScript library for building web components, and its homepage states that every Lit component is a native web component. The library is installed from npm as the `lit` package, and it adds reactive properties and declarative HTML templates to the component model.

Lit SSR renders Lit components and templates to static HTML markup in non-browser JavaScript environments such as Node. The [SSR documentation](https://lit.dev/docs/ssr/overview/) describes the package as part of the Lit Labs family of experimental packages.

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