[jscheel]

It can get pretty messy at times.

[georgedyer]

try CoffeeKup: https://github.com/mauricemach/coffeekup or Teacup: http://goodeggs.github.com/teacup/

[account_taken]

Try https://github.com/mgutz/funcd. It's straight up CoffeeScript functions patterned after Markaby, Erector. Other CoffeeScript templates we tried did funky things with the context and closures didn't work as expected.

And when performance is a concern, you can't beat string interpolation within CoffeeScript heredoc strings.

[jscheel]

Yep, that's usually how I start my render() method (using triple-quote strings). Then I wrap it in jquery and do dom manipulation on it.

[jeffmess]

Why can't people just use regular HTML for markup? Coffeescript is beautiful when you are composing short succinct functions but this just looks like more work for my brain.

[jscheel]

I used coffeekup back in the day, but I just can't stand the jade-style declarative html. I also used eco for a while, but it got pretty messy too. I'm picky, I know :)