I would be very interested in an API similar to the plates[1] library, but with support for event bindings (instead of being just a one-off rendering of plain HTML). My first thought is that it might not be very maintainable, and at best might only be useful for small templates or templates that are heavy on microdata[2].

But there's just something about this type of binding that makes me want to give it a serious chance, at least once, before completely giving up on it.

[1]: https://github.com/flatiron/plates

[2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Guides/Mic...

Plates style isn't what developers expect from modern templating syntaxes. Every popular syntax today supports inline expressions.