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2025-09-12

The Holy Grail of JavaScript Templating Engines

A short exploration of templating trade-offs in JavaScript applications.

Templating engines sit between data and the generated user interface. The important question is not only syntax, but how the template fits the application architecture.

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Modern frameworks moved much of this concern into components, but the underlying problem is still the same: render predictable UI from changing state.