As a fan of Vue templating, I appreciate its advanced features, such as slot props, which are unmatched by most other templating languages. However, I'm struggling to find a way to utilize Vue templates as a traditional backend templating language in ExpressJS.

Ideally, I'd like to have a simple and straightforward way to render Vue templates, similar to what's available in other templating languages, such as Pug's pug.renderFile("template.pug", options). This would enable me to replace existing templating solutions with Vue.

I'm wondering if it's possible for Vue to expose a similar rendering functionality in its API, allowing developers to leverage its powerful templating capabilities in a backend context, such as in an ExpressJS application.