A templating library based on JavaScript tagged template literals

Hi folks,

A couple years ago I started this small project for doing "old style" server templates but in a much more modern way and wanted to share it here. I'd appreciate any feedback you might have or any ideas to improve it if you have any.

I know nowadays doing "old style" templates is pretty out of fashion for many of us, but when working just myself on some side projects I felt like using a full blown modern "SPA" framework such as React or Vue was overkill, so I opted for doing plain old server templates with Stimulus.js sprinkles for the client side interactivity.

I tried EJS, Handlebars, Nunjucks, and a few others but after having enjoyed the support you get for TypeScript, Intellisense, syntax highlighting, autoformatting and other benefits that you get when using JSX, I felt like the existing templating solutions were way too out of date.

So I gave it a spin and ended up building this. It looks a bit like JSX and it's actually inspired in lit-html, except it's simplified to the maximum (implementation is about 70 lines) and works both in the browser and on the server.

Thanks for any feedback.

NPM package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-string

Github repo: https://github.com/msurdi/html-string

This are lots of JS templating libraries that use tagged literals. It would be odd to release a templating library in 2023 that didn't use tagged literals.