Lit
Lightweight library for building fast, reusable web components with minimal overhead.
Web frameworks npm BSD-3-Clause
How Lit is used
Lit is a dependency in 42 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.9% of the 4,818 JavaScript/TypeScript ones), #15 of 71 in web frameworks. The most used alternative in our scan is React (2,023 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Vitest (85.7%), chalk (81.0%), jiti (81.0%). It is more common in projects set up for OpenClaw (11.1%) than for GitHub Copilot (0.6%).
Lit popularity over time
Gid Score 61: downloads 77, use in agent projects 40, GitHub stars 63, downloads trend 54 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Lit
| Vitest | 85.7% of Lit projects · 4.2× more than average |
|---|---|
| chalk | 81.0% of Lit projects · 28.1× more than average |
| jiti | 81.0% of Lit projects · 46.1× more than average |
| JSZip | 81.0% of Lit projects · 47.9× more than average |
| Clack Prompts | 78.6% of Lit projects · 78.7× more than average |
| @lit/context | 78.6% of Lit projects · 147.8× more than average |
| Commander | 78.6% of Lit projects · 28.4× more than average |
| Croner | 78.6% of Lit projects · 113.4× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 1.1% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| OpenClaw | 11.1% of projects set up for it |
| GitHub Copilot | 0.6% of projects set up for it |
| Gemini CLI | 3.4% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Lit as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install lit |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (32), Python (9), PHP (1) |
| Example projects | Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop, ArgentAIOS/argentos-core, raucvr/Group-Goki, badlogic/vs-claude, CharlesHoskinson/dancesWithClaws |
Alternatives to Lit
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Lit are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| React npm JavaScript library for building interactive user interfaces with components. |
94 | 2,023 (42.0%) | 116M | 251K | MIT |
| Vue npm Progressive JavaScript framework for building interactive user interfaces. |
75 | 168 (3.5%) | 10.2M | 54.7K | MIT |
| Angular npm Full-featured web framework with TypeScript, dependency injection and RxJS. |
71 | 94 (2.0%) | 3.3M | 101K | MIT |
| Svelte npm Compiler-based frontend framework for building reactive web interfaces with less boilerplate. |
72 | 83 (1.7%) | 4.2M | 88.4K | MIT |
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