I have no personal experience with it, but Google's been toying with this project: https://github.com/PolymerLabs/lit-html https://github.com/PolymerLabs/lit-ht

I have no personal experience with it, but Google's been toying with this project: https://github.com/PolymerLabs/lit-html https://github.com/PolymerLabs/lit-html Might help with some of those pain points