npm is not just a server side package manager. It handles package management for the front-end very well and has for a long time, learn more here -- http://browserify.org/.
`<div id="greet">Hello <%= name %></div>` is a biproduct of many years of webservers not being able to parse DOM structures. DSLs come and go. they make markup non-portable. Moving away from DSLs is a step toward a more portable stack.
sammyjs emulates Sinatra. Sinatra is ad-hoc routing, vs centrally-declarative (e.g. a routing table definition). And although sammy is great, it is also a jack-knife with many plugins, we wanted to move the plugin-like capacity to a higher position in the architecture, which keeps sugarskull simple and focused on routing. I dont think the router is the right place to hang all your functionality from.
`plates` is essentially a loose html-parser. The only reason it exists is because `weld` is too slow right now for mass consumption. `plates` is intended to ensure that developers have a way to template without DSLs since a lot of people want to keep their markup clean.
Does that constitute an army of sockpuppets? I would disagree. I have two gmail accounts. One is personal, one is professional. Also, our posts we're censored long before hook.io got its second wind. Perhaps we should chalk this up to a misunderstanding and move forward.
that's subjective (unless you can post tests). for example, one of the primary deficiencies of the dom is live node lists, which is an optimization option in jsdom. (also, we do create a fragment and then attach, as perf opts state)
Marak is definitely unpleasant for some. However, he regularly contributes code to the community that people consider useful. For example among many high profile developers, Tim Caswell, a cornerstone of the Node.js community voted 5/5 for utility on the Nodejitsu Node Knockout entry. You're acting like you're a part of the Node.js community? If you or anyone is going to be so negative, they should at least have one or more nodejs projects that have been publicly noted as useful or relevant. So ironically, you're quite a troll.