Nolan Lawson

"The time is right for a DOM templating API" by @justinfagnani https://justinfagnani.com/2025/06/26/the-time-is-right-for-a-dom-templating-api/

I agree. The major frameworks (outside React anyway) have converged on surprisingly similar ideas. It's a good time to just put JavaScript frameworks into the browser.

The time is right for a DOM templating API

Justin Fagnani
Jun 26 at 2:59pmWeb
Show threadNolan LawsonJun 26
The idea of "make it a compile target for JSX" is also a good way to win over the React crowd. I think SolidJS proved that a lot of React fans love JSX but not necessarily React itself.
Show threadTorbJun 27

@nolan People clearly want to interleave JavaScript in their templating *in some way*, but I’m not convinced that means they like it in JSX form.

It’s worth remembering that (before public release) React didn’t even use JSX, and ultimately it’s something they introduced to make React more palatable (HTML-looking).

Don’t get me wrong, I think JSX is *fine* and I like that in principle JSX is similar between systems (in practice it’s often different though, compare Solid and React JSX for instance).