Hacker News: lamplightdev

New comment by lamplightdev in "Most people can't juggle one ball"

lamplightdev — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:40:24 +0000

I learnt to juggle with the help of this book: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/777103.The_Complete_J..., all sorts of tips and tricks in there

New comment by lamplightdev in "Show HN: Wafer – a small Web Component base library for the client and server"

lamplightdev — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 21:48:42 +0000

Wafer is a simple and lightweight base library for building Web Components that can be used on the browser, server or both.

It small (<2kb minified and compressed) and opts for a CSS selector based API for updating component templates.

Component declarations can be used unchanged on both the client and server (node) to SSR components (using Shadow or Light DOM) and optionally hydrate on the client.

Read a quick overview at https://waferlib.netlify.app/docs/010-overview/030-quick/, or edit a live example at https://waferlib.netlify.app/docs/010-overview/040-example/.

All feedback welcome, thanks!

Show HN: Wafer – a small Web Component base library for the client and server

lamplightdev — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 21:45:15 +0000

Article URL: https://waferlib.netlify.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27953202

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by lamplightdev in "Show HN: MeetSpace – a web app to set up instant meeting spaces"

lamplightdev — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 21:12:15 +0000

Hi all - thought I'd share a side project I've been working on recently. Think of it as a Slack-lite for groups of people who are temporarily networking with each other - think events, conferences and meetings. Would love to get some feedback on any aspects of it (the idea, the design, the execution). I'm currently in pre-launch so if anyone does fancy trying it out for a real event please go ahead - user limits are currently disabled so there's no cost. Thanks!

Technically it's written using Web Components (LitElement based) which I've really enjoyed using.

Show HN: MeetSpace – a web app to set up instant meeting spaces

lamplightdev — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 21:05:24 +0000

Article URL: https://meetspace.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26334531

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by lamplightdev in "Show HN: RemindMe – A PWA Showcasing Notification Triggers"

lamplightdev — Thu, 07 May 2020 11:28:35 +0000

RemindMe is an experimental app to showcase background notifications in the browser.

It makes use of Notification Triggers, an experimental API to schedule local notifications that don't require a network connection. Currently Chrome is the only browser that has an implementation of Notification Triggers.

Show HN: RemindMe – A PWA Showcasing Notification Triggers

lamplightdev — Thu, 07 May 2020 11:28:16 +0000

Article URL: https://remindme.lamplightdev.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23101807

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by lamplightdev in "Show HN: Aeon – a lightweight date picker built with web components"

lamplightdev — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 19:47:41 +0000

Nice idea, although I think the difficult thing is how to make that obvious to the user as it's not a standard way to select something.

New comment by lamplightdev in "Show HN: Aeon – a lightweight date picker built with web components"

lamplightdev — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 16:48:54 +0000

Thanks for the feedback. I agree the meaning of the icons is unclear - one is cancel, the other is clear. I would prefer to have text on these buttons, but then localising the language becomes an issue. I will think over these issues!

New comment by lamplightdev in "Show HN: Aeon – a lightweight date picker built with web components"

lamplightdev — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 13:33:22 +0000

Thanks for these pointers, very useful indeed - I'll look to address them in the next update.

New comment by lamplightdev in "Show HN: Aeon – a lightweight date picker built with web components"

lamplightdev — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 09:20:31 +0000

Thanks! That was a key requirement for my use case, so I appreciate the feedback.

New comment by lamplightdev in "Show HN: Aeon – a lightweight date picker built with web components"

lamplightdev — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 22:12:57 +0000

Thanks! The Storybook doesn't work too well on smaller viewports, but the picker does work well on small screens in regular pages, e.g. https://lamplightdev.github.io/aeon/

New comment by lamplightdev in "Show HN: Aeon – a lightweight date picker built with web components"

lamplightdev — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 21:48:49 +0000

I needed a progressively enhanced, lightweight date and time picker that functioned and looked consistent across all browsers, and that worked with or without a framework. The difference in support (no native picker on desktop Safari) style and behaviour of native pickers rule them out, so web components seemed an obvious choice. The existing web component solutions tended to be too heavyweight, so Aeon was born:

- No dependencies - a standalone vanilla JS web component

- Lightweight - 5kb gzipped

- Use anywhere - use standalone or directly in your framework of choice with no wrappers

- Progressive enhancement - if the code fails to load, fallbacks to a native picker or a simple text box

- Accessible - works with mouse/touch/keyboard/screen readers and behaves as a native form element

- Locale aware - uses the browser locale language and date format by default

- Themeable - pass in custom colour schemes

- Browser support - works in all modern browsers on all devices (and IE11 - with polyfills)

Show HN: Aeon – a lightweight date picker built with web components

lamplightdev — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 21:47:01 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/lamplightdev/aeon

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22488505

Points: 34

# Comments: 12

New comment by lamplightdev in "Introduction to WebComponents with ShadowDOM"

lamplightdev — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 18:29:51 +0000

You can't without client side JavaScript if you're using the Shadow DOM. If you're not using Shadow DOM, just Light DOM, then you can do so: https://lamplightdev.com/blog/2019/07/20/how-to-server-side-...

Web Components aren't a framework replacement – they're better than that

lamplightdev — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 23:46:18 +0000

Article URL: https://lamplightdev.com/blog/2020/01/18/web-components-arent-a-framework-replacement-theyre-better-than-that/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22103040

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by lamplightdev in "Snowpack: Build a web application without a bundler"

lamplightdev — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 12:22:11 +0000

Any UI library based on web components is your best bet for a 'framework-less' solution. Some more popular ones are:

- Material Design Web Components, https://github.com/material-components/material-components-w...

- Vaadin, https://vaadin.com/components

- UI5, https://sap.github.io/ui5-webcomponents/

New comment by lamplightdev in "Snowpack: Build a web application without a bundler"

lamplightdev — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 10:07:59 +0000

There's a video from the latest Chrome Dev Summit on this very topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFvPLrKZywA&feature=youtu.be

New comment by lamplightdev in "Show HN: Scrapp – a lightweight bookmark manager PWA"

lamplightdev — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 09:04:58 +0000

Yeah, sorry - https://scrapp.it - not sure how I managed to forget that!

New comment by lamplightdev in "Show HN: Scrapp – a lightweight bookmark manager PWA"

lamplightdev — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 22:15:47 +0000

This has been a labour of love to create a web based bookmark manager that I can use across all devices without having to install anything. I've learnt a lot about building this PWA with web components as a well as more than I care to mention about the intricacies and inconsistencies of site meta data! I hope other people find it useful.