nano vs literal-html

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nano		literal-html
	Project
5	Mentions	1
1,411	Stars	0
1.3%	Growth	-
5.6	Activity	10.0
about 2 months ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
TypeScript	Language	TypeScript
MIT License	License	MIT No Attribution

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

nano

Posts with mentions or reviews of nano. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-27.

Nano JSX – 1kb JSX library with SSR
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Feb 2024
Web Components Eliminate JavaScript Framework Lock-In
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Nov 2023
That people produce HTML with string templates is telling us something
16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 May 2023

for sure not suggesting using E4X as it is, JSX has evolved a lot from E4X. For example, as small implementation such as https://nanojsx.io would be a good start.
VanJS (Vanilla JavaScript): smallest reactive UI framework
21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 May 2023
NanoJSX – SSR first, lightweight 1kB JSX library
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 May 2023

literal-html

Posts with mentions or reviews of literal-html. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-26.

That people produce HTML with string templates is telling us something
16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 May 2023

XSLT has a steep learning curve and it’s extremely verbose. But my main problem with it is that (as far as I know) XHTML isn’t being updated alongside the current HTML spec (with semantic elements).
Related: I’ll admit that I used to use XSLT for my static site generators [1] and now I’ve switched to string interpolation (with conservative escaping as the default) [2].
[1] https://github.com/jaredkrinke/flog/blob/main/post.xsl
[2] https://github.com/jaredkrinke/literal-html

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nano and literal-html you can also consider the following projects:

van - 🍦 VanJS: World's smallest reactive UI framework. Incredibly Powerful, Insanely Small - Everyone can build a useful UI app in an hour.

htmlgo - A library for writing type-safe HTML in Golang

vanilla - An OpenResty Lua MVC Web Framework

vtpl - Vtpl is a php template engine that ensures proper separations of concerns, the frontend logic is separated from presentation. The goal is to keep the html unchanged for better maintainability for both backend and frontend developers

tinyjs

dream-html - Generate HTML markup from your OCaml Dream backend server

flog - Pre-Markdown static site generator based on UNIX tools and XSL

phpStageManager - Web-based theatre management utility

imperative - Structured UI Programming with ES6 Generators

dom - DOM Standard