Creating a decentralized P2P chat app. Aiming to provide military-grade encrypted messaging encapsulated into a webapp.

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Cake day: October 25th, 2018

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  • @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.


  • @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.


  • @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.