[spankalee]

The preprocessing is far from an HTML parser. It just helps pick what marker to join template fragments with before passing to the built-in parser.

You seem to think this is enough of a problem to comment on every time I mention lit-html, but you never back it up with any reasoning. Why should it be bad to do some string processing? What's "ungodly" about joining the template fragments?

The fact is, lit-html is very fast, and allows embedding parameterized, updatable markup in standard JavaScript. You don't have to use it.

[dmitriid]

> You seem to think this is enough of a problem to comment on every time I mention lit-html, but you never back it up with any reasoning.

I did, 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19649717

And in that same thread, in a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19643593

That also addresses the "not parsing" part.