I recently watched a presentation about React's approach (I think from a recent JSConf) and it sold me, at least enough to try. The approach makes total sense to me, and I agree with many of its criticisms of Angular in particular. I really loved the reconsidering of our idea of "separation of concerns", that if we reconsider the scope of the concern, we can devise an approach where templating and logic go together. I'm excited by these ideas.
Seems like putting templates inside js is a step backwards. The advantage is that you can package templates together with js? That problem is still solvable while maintaining separation. For instaces with browserify tramsforms you can just require( 'my-template' ).
