[reddittor]

I'd have to agree with you, for most traditional web applications.

When you start to build single page applications with lots and lots of states ( that are bound to a DOM ), this approach actually can become favorable since your "presentation logic" is browser-side JavaScript.

To my understanding, the server-side rendering aspect of this approach is really just an after-thought. You have your single page application, but you can still render a server-side snapshot of various UI states without requiring a browser.

While I wouldn't necessarily dive straight into DOM-based templating, I think there is a lot of room for interesting improvements in this area. I'm glad to see JSDOM maturing.