incremental-bars

incremental-bars is a build-time tool that compiles standard Handlebars templates to incremental-dom instructions, enabling DOM patching instead of string replacement. Version 1.0.6, with no recent updates (appears unmaintained since ~2016). It supports all native Handlebars features (partials, block helpers, decorators) without rewriting Handlebars, unlike HtmlBars. The library is framework-agnostic and designed for precompilation, not runtime browser use. Key differentiators: reuse existing templates, no Handlebars fork, linear instruction representation.