@ericjmorey I’m fairly new to mastodon. I was investigating Lemmy separately, and didn’t know it connects through mastodon.

Still generally trying to figure things out.

@umt

Elm is good.

For this project I specifically wanted to use web components, but in the style of React.

There is no practical use case for this “UI framework”. It’s a personal learning process.

@TehPers @umt

> PoC for the purposes of learning

yeah thats right.

i want to see if creating some kind of thin-transparent-wrapper like this, could make it so i dont have to update it as a dependencies. consider that we recently got react 19. this will be followed by a scramble by many to use the latest and most stable version.

i cant guarantee any stability in my current progress, but in theory, by relying on the underlying web component from the browser, it becomes future-proof.

@wake_up

thanks! im glad you like it :)

> what inspired you to create Dim in the first place?

working with Lit felt a bit like a step backwards when coming from React. the React syntax just seems more elegant to me so i wanted to see if i could do it with webcomponents.

im aiming to see if i can get something that looks and behaves like React, but works natively in a browser without the need to build or transpile. i think in theory it could work.

@wake_up

as for tips for somone new to webcomponents, i think its good to take a look at resources online. i dont know enough to suggest any.

i found that after trying it myself, creating something with vanilla webcomponents was a bit of a pain (and the code looks ugly). so its only natural to lean towards something like Lit or Vue for larger projects.

personally, webcomponents seem cumbersome and thats why i wanted to see if Dim was possible. its an attempt to reduce the complexity.