title: How to use templating (handlebars, or any alternative) with Node.js and without using a framework (ex = express)?
body: <p>For example, I have this JSON document "foo.json":</p>
  
  <pre><code>{
      "foo": [
          {
              "bar": "Hello World!"
          },
          {
              "bar": "The End"
          }
      ]
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In Node.js, I would like to use templating (handlebars or any) to generate a string from the JSON document, such as:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;p&gt;Hello World!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The End&lt;/p&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>... And then assign that string value to a variable in Node.js. Finally, I'll concatenate more values to the variable and output the final variable value as an html document.</p>
  
  <p>Can this be done without using a framework like Express?</p>