I think you can get pretty close to the comfort of JSX with plain JS, without needing a preprocessor. Local development is so much nicer without webpack, babel,

I think you can get pretty close to the comfort of JSX with plain JS, without needing a preprocessor. Local development is so much nicer without webpack, babel, source maps, ... I've been trying trying this out [1] with a thin 300-line DOM wrapper, and works wonderfully well so far. There are also libraries like lit-html but I prefer to construct html as an object tree, and not a string. 1: https://github.com/bwindels/brawl-chat/blob/master/src/ui/web/login/LoginView.js https://github.com/bwindels/brawl-chat/blob/master/src/ui/we...