[roopawl]

I don't think you'll ever get away without a build chain using LitElement. If you are, I think your project is a toy, hobby, or very far from complete

[maga]

I have been using lit-html for years now, and lit-element for a couple years all in vanilla js for evergreen browsers with the only build step being bundling for production. Here is one of the projects: https://cisterna.app