What is Stencil?
Stencil combines some of the best features from traditional frameworks, but outputs 100% standards-compliant Custom Elements, part of the Web Component spec.
Stencil is a tool in the JavaScript Framework Components category of a tech stack.
Stencil is an open source tool with 12.6K GitHub stars and 794 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Stencil's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Stencil?
Companies
17 companies reportedly use Stencil in their tech stacks, including Content Square, Huel, and Chilli.
Developers
69 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Stencil.
Stencil Integrations
Node.js, React, jQuery, npm, and AngularJS are some of the popular tools that integrate with Stencil. Here's a list of all 10 tools that integrate with Stencil.
Stencil's Features
- Web Component-based
- Asynchronous rendering pipeline
- TypeScript support
- One-way Data Binding
- Component prerendering
- Simple component lazy-loading
- JSX support
- Dependency-free components
Stencil Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Stencil?
Svelte
If you've ever built a JavaScript application, the chances are you've encountered – or at least heard of – frameworks like React, Angular, Vue and Ractive. Like Svelte, these tools all share a goal of making it easy to build slick interactive user interfaces. Rather than interpreting your application code at run time, your app is converted into ideal JavaScript at build time. That means you don't pay the performance cost of the framework's abstractions, or incur a penalty when your app first loads.
React
Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.
Polymer
Polymer is a new type of library for the web, designed to leverage the existing browser infrastructure to provide the encapsulation and extendability currently only available in JS libraries. Polymer is based on a set of future technologies, including Shadow DOM, Custom Elements and Model Driven Views. Currently these technologies are implemented as polyfills or shims, but as browsers adopt these features natively, the platform code that drives Polymer evacipates, leaving only the value-adds.
jQuery
jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
AngularJS
AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.
