This document discusses the future of templating frameworks and introduces lit-html as a new lightweight templating solution. Lit-html uses tagged template literals to parse templates and returns templating instructions to efficiently update the DOM. It works well with web components for building reusable custom elements. LitElement provides a base class to simplify building components with lit-html. Element router provides routing capabilities for web components. Overall, lit-html and related tools provide a performant and flexible approach to templating within the web components standard.