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The time is right for a DOM templating API

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218 points mdhb | 2 comments | 26 Jun 25 19:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.404s | source
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pier25 ◴[26 Jun 25 22:40 UTC] No.44392178[source]▶
The web really needs native templating, reactivity, and data binding.

I can't even begin to imagine how much CPU and bandwidth is wasted with billions of users downloading, parsing, and executing something like React.

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nwienert ◴[26 Jun 25 23:36 UTC] No.44392500[source]▶
React isn’t templating though.
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1. ivape ◴[27 Jun 25 21:18 UTC] No.44400338[source]▶
That's kind of like saying React isn't just a bunch of a functions (it is). What do the JSX templates compile down to?
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2. nwienert ◴[04 Jul 25 16:39 UTC] No.44465949[source]▶
Missed this but - there’s a very meaningful difference between templates and React at least how most people think of templates.

React lets you return dynamic tree structures and insert code anywhere inline in that structure. Most templates explicitly don’t allow that for good reason. Further, most but not all templating frameworks have special syntax for conditional logic and loops.

If JSX is templating then templating has no meaning. Would createElement() be a template? In that case all functional programming is.