I have found it easy enough to just use json-serializable literals to represent html, e.g:

    ['div', {id: 'main'}, 
        ['h1', 'Some title'],
        ['p', 'Some text']]

I wrote a little function to turn this kind of thing into an html string (https://github.com/twfarland/don), but it could also be used as the view descriptor for some kind of view component ala React. Might work on that...