A standards-first web framework

I help maintain Lit[1], which I consider a very standards-first non-framework.

With Lit you can build full apps with standard and plain JS, CSS, and HTML; standard web components; and no build tools.

I don't immediately see how this is any more standards-first, especially when it mentions Markdown, tooling, and a CLI. I don't actually really see what exactly this even is from this landing page. It would help to show something up front.

[1]: https://lit.dev

Lit is amazing. But I don't like template strings for HTML. The IDE doesn't understand it automatically, and lit jsx had a bunch of issues last time I tried to use it.

In my view, JSX will be the true legacy of React. Applications are code. Many frameworks (such as htmx) extend HTML to bring a bit of programmability into it; but I felt they were just framework-specific, non-standard rules to learn. JSX is more standardized, and isn't as framework dependent.

Shameless plug: Magic Loop [1], a Lit alternative (that nobody knows about) which uses WebJSX [2] underneath.

[1]: https://github.com/webjsx/magic-loop

[2]: https://www.webjsx.org

Magic Loop looks very similar to Crank (that nobody knows about either). Was it an inspiration?