Discontinued?

[p3pp8]

Simple question: Is react-templates discontinued?
Another simple question: In case of positive answers to the above, is out there any alternative?

Cheers!

[nippur72]

There are no alternatives that I know of, indeed I ended up writing a templating engine of my own.

Things have changed a lot since the introduction of react-templates; generally speaking the interest in HTML templates has dropped considerably. Today the choice is JSX, no doubt. The syntax might be a little uglier than plain templates, but there are lot of benefits.

[p3pp8]

I can't ask the UI guys to use JSX to create layouts, i see at this point it would be better to go with angularJS and its templating engine as i know it well... Generally is not a good thing to put everything in one single file and mix html with js code, it can be useful for newbies or unskilled programmers perhaps, but not if you want to give a good structure to your project. Really disappointing.
Thanx for the answer!

[nippur72]

I love html templates but the most annoying part is switching back and forth from code to template, really.

The second most annoying thing is that you don't have syntax checking or even syntax highlight (nowadays you can't live without).

Anyway you should not dismiss react-templates too quickly. Even if it's not very active, it proved to work over the years, it's solid. I used it a lot before I started to change it adding the features I needed, eventually rewriting it from scratch.

[p3pp8]

@nippur72 Ok i'll test it more accurately, we'll see. Thanx!!!

[p3pp8]

Anyway, i think this project should be still developed, it's something that is really useful to developers, to divide code from what will be rendered and organize the project using a MVC like paradigm.

Cheers