Hi, I have noticed your planned development of a listview widget, if the listview and templates are to be synonymous; it might be worth your while to look at the unobtrusive pure approach. http://beebole.com/pure/  

Hi Telerik team.

There is a plan or intention to isolate the Template engine indo a separated file or something?

I like the Kendo UI Template engine a lot, I would use it isolated in a project without kendo, for example. It could even be a isolate npm module.I think it is better than mustache or handlebars imo, because you can deal with pure javascript inside, instead of predefined functions and stuff like that.

Example: https://jsfiddle.net/yfz6he3u/

Cheers.