[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.