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"Alpine.js offers you the reactive and declarative nature of big frameworks like Vue or React at a much lower cost. You get to keep your DOM, and sprinkle in behavior as you see fit... Alpine doesn't use a virtual DOM. This implementation allows Alpine to stay rugged and use the real DOM to work its magic" https://github.com/alpinejs/alpine

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I’ve seen Alpine, and it is interesting, but another bullet point in my wish list is vanilla JS; no new template language. JSX is just a small bit of sugar on top of vanilla JS, in my mind, so it is acceptable.

From the brief glance I've taken at Alpine I didn't think it did have a template language - unless you refer to it's use of custom html attributes?

Alpine has directives like x-if and x-for. For a lightweight templating library I would recommend https://pure-js.com. It's been around for ages. The PureJS directives take some time to get used to, but are quite powerful once you do.

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