[emadda]

Something I have experimented with for a few sites is using Bun JS with HTML in JS strings.

Bun has a —hot flag that regenerates static html on change.

IntelliJ IDE can detect a // language=html comment above strings which formats the html inside and does highlighting etc.

Just using vanilla JS functions instead of a template language lets you write any logic yourself instead of looking up the template languages way of doing it.