Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for rendering components of a user interface (UI) of an application such that primitive child elements that correspond to child components of the UI can be rendered without instantiating the child components. Each child data object corresponds to a particular child component of a parent component and includes data for that particular child component. Child data objects can be augmented to include a simple render method for rendering structured data of the augmented child data objects. The parent component be rendered from its template by iteratively evaluating each child data object and checking a property of that child data object to determine whether it includes a simple render method, and if so, the template of the parent component can instruct the framework to use that simple render method to get an atom object and render one or more primitive child elements.