[throw_m239339]

React can be used as a templating library server-side in a node environment (like handlebars). It's a bit heavy for the task but it works.

[crooked-v]

A huge benefit React (and anything else that uses JSX) has over text-based templating is that you can strictly lint/typecheck JSX because ultimately it's just syntactic sugar over plain JS.

[likeclockwork]

You can typecheck anything there exists a typechecker for.

Vue templates are typechecked for example.