I wish that the Crank library (https://crank.js.org/) would get more attention. It takes everything in the exact opposite direction, which in my opinion is much more promising. But alas, it just doesn't seem to be catching on so I don't see an ecosystem ever really evolving there.
This looks interesting but a headline of "Just JavaScript" fell flat when all but one example are code that won't even run in any browser (JSX) and the example that will is only "roughly the same thing".
