Web Component

Like Polymer before, Lit-Element uses javascript or typescript files for code, templates and styles by default, to enable the use of javascript variables. While this may be useful in some cases, personally I prefer having my style definitions in separate files mainly to benefit from Sass, but also the added benefit of editor assistance like highlighting and autocompletion. Fortunately this can be changed with a bundler like Webpack. ...

As those following the news about the Polyring may have read on xyquadrat, our widget can now be styled with themes. For those interested about the inner workings I will provide some technical information here. The component makes heavy use of css variables alongside the attribute theme, which can be set on the component. Let’s walk through the needed setup, which consists of both javascript code and css descriptions. ...