Support for LWC outside of Salesforce projects

[Xander Victory]

Would it be possible to extend the LWC (mainly HTML part) support to non-sfdx/sf projects?

See https://lwc.dev/ for details, but key differences:

• No SFDX project, somewhat standard JS/node project layout
• No metadata files
• Modules folder provides some difficulties for IDEA/Webstorm resolution (see index.js file in generic boilerplate)

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[Scott Wells]

Hi, Xander. LWC does work in non-SFDX projects, though of course they must be stored in metadata format. The only thing that I'm aware of not working is LWC local dev because that requires the CLI-based local development server. Otherwise I've developed quite a few LWC components in traditional/metadata format projects, and I have several customers doing large-scale LWC dev in those types of projects as well.

If you're unable to get this working, can you provide a sample project that reproduces the issues that you're seeing?

[Xander Victory]

hey Scott, what I’m asking for is support when there’s no metadata involved (or even Salesforce for that matter) - it's the open source variant

There are some instructions on the page linked in the OP to set up a boilerplate project, but to just browse you can look here: https://github.com/thiakil/lwc-os-slds/tree/working-slds

[Scott Wells]

Ah, I see. I should have inferred that from your first bullet point. Unfortunately I can't see that happening anytime soon as my backlog for Salesforce-specific work is effectively never-ending. I'll keep this on the docket, though, and see if there's an opportunity to take a look at some point.