Alternative to HandlebarsJS for Small Projects
I have been using handlebars for years now for small production projects. For example a single page of digital signage displaying the output of a JSON endpoint. It's been great for that but I feel like I may want to experiment with something new that can optimize my images at build time, gzip etc... What else out there these days can be used for this purpose? React/Next is overkill and to be frank not my skillset.
It doesn't do gzip or image optimization, but such features might be better suited as server middlewares separate from the template engine.
Handlebars seems to me to be the right level of abstraction - it's done for me quite well in the past. And if I reach out for a web framework again I think I will not stray far.
Good luck with your search