[westbrookj]

lit-html is great!

- no build step

- ergonomic

- fast

- flexible

- useful whether alone or in a library/framework wrapper (see LitElement, https://lit-element.polymer-project.org/, Haunted, https://github.com/matthewp/haunted, et al.)

Getting just about all the convenience of JSX with the ability to have your templates run in pure JS in the browser, with no build step is pretty rad. Even if the difference is just a few seconds here or there, multiply that by the amount of work I'm supposed to be getting done in a day, and it starts to add up.

It's also nice to have control over whether to work with attributes or properties. A level of control that is mirrored by having direct access to event binding (rather than an abstraction of it) so you can pin down whatever custom events you might be passing around your application.

Maybe that's my favorite part, you get control. Whether via the time you get back, the say you have over your templates, the interoperability of your code, you have it with lit-html in a way that JSX hasn't really allowed me to in my experiences with it.