# Lit Blog Latest news, announcements, and highlights from the Lit team and community. This is one page of public article previews, not the complete archive. Follow Next page to continue. Summaries are not the original full articles. ## Lit is Joining the OpenJS Foundation! DevFeed: [Lit is Joining the OpenJS Foundation!]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Lit Team Published: 2025-10-14T00:00:00Z Content type: news Language: en Sources: [Lit Blog]() Topics: [Open Source](), [JavaScript](), [Web platform](), [Google](), [Electron](), [Node.js](), [Webpack]() Tags: [community](), [google](), [governance](), [javascript](), [open-source](), [web-platform]() ### AI overview Lit is joining the OpenJS Foundation as an Impact Project, moving from a solely Google-owned project to a community-driven governance model. The transition includes transferring Lit's code, documentation, websites, and brand to the foundation, with a Technical Steering Committee guiding the project. ### Source excerpt Lit is officially joining the OpenJS Foundation as an Impact Project! ## Bringing Signals to Lit Labs DevFeed: [Bringing Signals to Lit Labs]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Lit Team Published: 2024-10-08T00:00:00Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [Lit Blog]() Topics: [JavaScript](), [reactive](), [Web Components](), [interoperability](), [polyfill]() Tags: [compatibility](), [components](), [interoperability](), [javascript](), [polyfill](), [reactive]() ### AI overview Lit Labs announced @lit-labs/signals, a package that integrates the polyfill for the TC39 Signals proposal with Lit. It enables shared observable signals for reactive state management, automatic component updates, targeted re-renders, and interoperability across libraries and frameworks. ### Source excerpt The new Signals package integrates the TC39 Signals proposal with Lit ## Lit Launch Day: Lit 3.0, Labs graduations, a compiler and more! DevFeed: [Lit Launch Day: Lit 3.0, Labs graduations, a compiler and more!]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Lit Team Published: 2023-10-10T00:00:00Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [Lit Blog]() Topics: [Web Components](), [releases](), [Web]() Tags: [announcements](), [launch](), [release](), [upgrade](), [web]() ### AI overview The Lit team announces the final release of Lit 3.0, along with Lit Labs graduations and other related releases. Lit 3.0 drops IE11 support, publishes npm modules as ES2021, removes APIs deprecated in Lit 2.0, moves SSR hydration support modules, and unifies decorator behavior. ### Source excerpt We're launching the next major version of Lit ## Announcing Lit 3.0 Pre-releases DevFeed: [Announcing Lit 3.0 Pre-releases]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Justin Fagnani Published: 2023-05-15T00:00:00Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [Lit Blog]() Topics: [releases](), [Web Components](), [Web](), [npm](), [toolchains](), [interoperability](), [Server-side rendering]() Tags: [browser](), [compatibility](), [interoperability](), [npm](), [packages](), [pre-release](), [release](), [releases](), [ssr](), [testing](), [toolchains](), [tooling](), [upgrade]() ### AI overview The Lit team announces the first Lit 3.0 pre-releases. This major version introduces a small set of breaking changes focused on browser support, deprecated APIs, package publishing, and SSR hydration modules, while adding no new features. Lit 2.x users without deprecation warnings should generally have a seamless upgrade, although some may need newer tooling because Lit's npm modules are now published as ES2021. ### Source excerpt Get an early look at the upcoming Lit 3.0 release. ## Get the lowdown on Lit Labs DevFeed: [Get the lowdown on Lit Labs]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Elliott Marquez Published: 2022-10-18T00:00:00Z Content type: news Language: en Sources: [Lit Blog]() Topics: [Web](), [npm]() Tags: [community](), [event](), [live-stream](), [npm](), [virtual-event](), [web](), [youtube]() ### AI overview The Lit team announces a virtual event about Lit Labs on October 24, 2022, at 10 AM PDT. The event will introduce the Lit Labs program, present several packages under development, and explain how community members can provide feedback and help mature them for Web Component projects. ### Source excerpt Join us for a virtual event on October 24th 2022 at 10AM PDT to learn all about Lit Labs! ## Lit on Discord! DevFeed: [Lit on Discord!]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Al Marks Published: 2022-09-06T00:00:00Z Content type: news Language: en Sources: [Lit Blog]() Topics: [Discord](), [Server](), [Slack](), [Open Source]() Tags: [announcements](), [communication](), [community](), [discord](), [open-source](), [server](), [slack](), [voice]() ### AI overview Lit has launched a Discord server for its community, offering spaces to chat with users and the development team, get help, share projects, and participate in chat and voice events. The Lit & Friends Slack workspace will become read-only on September 13, 2022, as the community moves to Discord. ### Source excerpt We've launched a brand new Lit Discord server, and here's why you should join it now! ## Eleventy + Lit DevFeed: [Eleventy + Lit]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Al Marks Published: 2022-02-07T00:00:00Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [Lit Blog]() Topics: [modern web development](), [Web Development]() Tags: [html](), [javascript](), [node](), [performance](), [release]() ### AI overview Lit announces an experimental Eleventy plugin that statically renders Lit components and hydrates them after JavaScript loads. ### Source excerpt Announcing a new Lit Labs Eleventy plugin for static rendering of Lit components ## Lit 2.1 Release DevFeed: [Lit 2.1 Release]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Arthur Evans Published: 2022-01-05T00:00:00Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [Lit Blog]() Topics: [Web platform](), [JavaScript](), [reactive]() Tags: [javascript](), [reactive](), [release](), [updates](), [web-platform]() ### AI overview The Lit 2.1 release adds declarative directives for conditionals, looping, joining, repetition, and case selection, along with a new query-assigned-elements decorator. Lit Labs also introduces reactive controllers for web platform observer APIs, while task and SSR functionality receive updates. ### Source excerpt New directives, new decorator, new observers package, and task/SSR updates ## Announcing Lit 2 stable release DevFeed: [Announcing Lit 2 stable release]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Lit Team Published: 2021-09-21T00:00:00Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [Lit Blog]() Topics: [Server-side rendering](), [Document Object Model (DOM)](), [reactive]() Tags: [compatibility](), [components](), [npm](), [performance](), [production](), [reactive](), [release]() ### AI overview This article announces the stable release of Lit 2, describing it as smaller, faster, better, SSR-ready, and suitable for production. It highlights improved performance, smaller bundles, backward compatibility, and new capabilities including directive APIs, asynchronous directives, reactive controllers, and element expressions. ### Source excerpt Lit 2: smaller, better, faster, SSR-ready, and ready for production. ## Lit 2.0: Meet Lit, all over again! DevFeed: [Lit 2.0: Meet Lit, all over again!]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Gray Norton Published: 2021-04-21T00:00:00Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [Lit Blog]() Topics: [Web Components](), [Server-side rendering](), [Streaming](), [reactive](), [Next.js](), [Eleventy](), [Frameworks]() Tags: [components](), [html](), [next-js](), [performance](), [popular](), [release](), [streaming]() ### AI overview The article announces the first release candidate of Lit 2.0, describing it as smaller, more capable, faster, and prepared for server-side rendering. It highlights reduced bundle sizes, new templating features, reactive controllers, rendering performance improvements, streaming SSR, client-side hydration, and compatibility with most existing Lit code. ### Source excerpt New name, new site, new version: smaller, better, faster, and SSR-ready. ## LitElement 3.0 & lit-html 2.0: Early Preview Release DevFeed: [LitElement 3.0 & lit-html 2.0: Early Preview Release]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Lit Team Published: 2020-09-22T00:00:00Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [Lit Blog]() Topics: [modern web development](), [releases]() Tags: [api](), [browser](), [html](), [performance](), [polyfill](), [release]() ### AI overview An early preview of LitElement 3.0 and lit-html 2.0 outlines planned breaking changes focused on performance, smaller size, API cleanup, and more reliable server-side rendering. ### Source excerpt Preview the next major versions of LitElement and lit-html. ## Lightning-fast templates & Web Components: lit-html & LitElement DevFeed: [Lightning-fast templates & Web Components: lit-html & LitElement]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Justin Fagnani Published: 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [Lit Blog]() Topics: [Web Development](), [releases](), [Functional programming]() Tags: [functional-programming](), [html](), [javascript](), [releases](), [ui](), [web]() ### AI overview Announces stable releases of lit-html and LitElement. It describes lit-html as a fast JavaScript HTML-templating library and LitElement as a base class for Web Components using lit-html templates. ### Source excerpt Announcing the stable releases of our next-generation web development libraries.