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Jaml: beautiful HTML generation for JavaScript

Generating HTML with JavaScript has always been ugly. Hella ugly. It usually involves writing streams of hard-to-maintain code which just concatenates a bunch of strings together and spits them out in an ugly mess.

Wouldn't it be awesome if we could do something pretty like this:

div(
h1("Some title"),
p("Some exciting paragraph text"),
br(),

ul(
li("First item"),
li("Second item"),
li("Third item")
)
);

And have it output something beautiful like this:

<div>
<h1>Some title</h1>
<p>Some exciting paragraph text</p>
<br />
<ul>
<li>First item</li>
<li>Second item</li>
<li>Third item</li>
</ul>
</div>

With Jaml, we can do exactly that. Jaml is a simple library inspired by the excellent Haml library for Ruby. It works by first defining a template using an intuitive set of tag functions, and then rendering it to appear as pretty HTML. Here's an example of how we'd do that with the template above:

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