Tom Dale

What happens if we treat our templates as a specialized functional programming language that can be compiled into optimized bytecode and executed with a virtual machine? 

Most web applications today build their UIs by running JavaScript. 

But what happens if we instead treat our templates as a specialized functional programming language that can be compiled into optimized bytecode and executed with a virtual machine? 

Tom explores this novel architecture and some of the performance benefits it gives us.

2017

dotJS

Secrets of the DOM Virtual Machine

Some people will tell you that templates are a “less powerful” way to build UIs for the web. But what happens if we view Handlebars templates through the lens of a high-performance functional reactive programming language?