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 12.3K GitHub stars and 761 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Stencil's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Stencil?
Companies
18 companies reportedly use Stencil in their tech stacks, including DevOps, Content Square, and Huel.
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.
React Router
React Router is a complete routing solution designed specifically for React.js. It painlessly synchronizes the components of your application with the URL, with first-class support for nesting, transitions, and server side rendering.
styled-components
Visual primitives for the component age. Use the best bits of ES6 and CSS to style your apps without stress 💅
