I'm confused by their description of templates as "messy" and their decision to use laconic. Not an opinion that I think is widely held and definitely doesn't make sense to me. (by html templates do they specifically mean ejs/erb type templates versus jade/haml??)
Using html templates is good separation of concerns and js just isn't very good at expressing html structure. Jade would have been a much better choice IMO. Laconic does a good job of minimizing the problems with using js to programatically build dom in js but still doesn't come close to a proper templating language.
Using html templates is good separation of concerns and js just isn't very good at expressing html structure. Jade would have been a much better choice IMO. Laconic does a good job of minimizing the problems with using js to programatically build dom in js but still doesn't come close to a proper templating language.