[tmpX7dMeXU]

Having a templating system in ‘that environment’ is worth its weight in gold IMO. I’ve been switching between Svelte and Django templates a lot lately, and Svelte just…knowing about the DOM, makes the experience so much nicer. I haven’t come across a non-JS template system that does this. And yes, I was there for PHP and jQuery and whatever.

[raverbashing]

I have to agree, Django templating (last I saw) was stuck somewhere in Web 1.0

Jinja2 is better, but most of the time, I would just build the API and not bother with rendering anything on Django itself

[raphaelcosta]

It's just another template engine, we can do the same (components like templates) in any language for years.

Ruby example that Github is using: https://viewcomponent.org/ https://viewcomponent.org/viewcomponents-at-github.html

[mattmanser]

We've had templating systems on the server-side for many decades?

Do you mean having a javascript templating system maybe? Not really worth it's weight in gold.

[ttfkam]

I was using ASP with JScript on Microsoft IIS servers back in 1999. So yeah, many decades. :)