I'm a fan of HAML / Slim / Jade too. You might want to check out React w/ CoffeeScript as it gets you pretty close (and has some benefits). It's not as pretty,

I'm a fan of HAML / Slim / Jade too. You might want to check out React w/ CoffeeScript as it gets you pretty close (and has some benefits). It's not as pretty, but still better than JSX imo. I posted some examples here: http://rapin.com/blog/2015/02/03/reactjs-with-coffeescript/ http://rapin.com/blog/2015/02/03/reactjs-with-coffeescript/