This is how lit-html implements efficient re-renders of the same template at the same location in DOM. It uses the template strings identity to mark that some DOM was generated from a specific template, and if rendering there again it just skips all the static parts of the template and updates the bound values.
Tagged template literals are crazy powerful, and it would be really neat to add some of that magic to other language features. If functions could access the callsite, you could implement React hooks without the whole hooks environment. Each hook could just cache it's state off the callsite object.
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This is how lit-html implements efficient re-renders of the same template at the same location in DOM. It uses the template strings identity to mark that some DOM was generated from a specific template, and if rendering there again it just skips all the static parts of the template and updates the bound values.
Tagged template literals are crazy powerful, and it would be really neat to add some of that magic to other language features. If functions could access the callsite, you could implement React hooks without the whole hooks environment. Each hook could just cache it's state off the callsite object.