There is one such framework: http://derbyjs.com/ It's been in development for about 3 years, so it certainly has a cost to implement. It is being used in production by Lever (YC) to ship very usable enterprise software.

There is even a TodoMVC example being submitted for Derby: https://github.com/derbyjs/todomvc/tree/master/examples/derb...

Another nice thing is that the templating engine can be used client-side only if you want: https://github.com/derbyjs/todomvc/tree/master/examples/derb...