I have a situation where a full framework was overkill but using Jquery was causing an unmaintanable mess when creating a dynamic UI. I took a middle ground. I came in and introduce Handlebars to the work flow. We still use Jquery, but our ui is created with simple intuitive handlebar templates/compiled functions.
When we do start building more complex web apps, we decided on Ember since it uses Handlebars as its templating engine.
When we do start building more complex web apps, we decided on Ember since it uses Handlebars as its templating engine.