[milesrout]

That's not a good thing.

I want to write this, and have it actually be HTML:

    <div>
        <div>
        </div>
    <div>

I like HTML.

[tannhaeuser]

Though I personally can tolerate JSX, maybe you like SGML templating [1] which uses native markup mechanisms such as entity references for fully HTML-aware and injection-free templating.

[1]: http://sgmljs.net/docs/templating.html

Disclaimer: my project, and SGML is most certainly not a "lightweight template engine" by any measure

[elcritch]

Same here! Try VueJS. Especially Vue Components as they wrap up HTML template and JS code. Vue creates the render function from the HTML template, so no mucking around with jsx. Personally I want to think in "HTML" with JS secondary.

[milesrout]

I love VueJS.