Dust.js Alternatives

Dust.js is described as 'Javascript templating engine. It inherits its look from the ctemplate family of languages, and is designed to run asynchronously on both the server and the browser' and is an website in the development category. There are eight alternatives to Dust.js, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including JavaScript, Node.JS, Mac and Windows apps. The best Dust.js alternative is Handlebars, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to Dust.js are Jinja, Nunjucks, mustache and EJS.

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  1. Handlebars icon
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    Handlebars is a JavaScript template library that is, more or less, based on mustache . Handlebars adds user defined block expressions and helpers to the standard Mustache template syntax.

    12 Handlebars alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
    • Handlebars is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Dust.js.

    • Handlebars is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Dust.js.

    • Handlebars is Free and Open SourceDust.js is Free and Proprietary
  2. Jinja icon
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    Jinja is a fast, expressive, extensible templating engine. Special placeholders in the template allow writing code similar to Python syntax. Then the template is passed data to render the final document.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
    • Jinja is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Dust.js.

    • Jinja is Free and Open SourceDust.js is Free and Proprietary
  3. Nunjucks icon
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    Nunjucks is a templating engine developed by Mozilla that is primarily used for dynamically generating HTML markup in web applications. It is written in JavaScript and designed to be highly flexible and extensible.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
     
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    Mustache is a simple web template system with implementations available for ActionScript, C++, Clojure, CoffeeScript, ColdFusion, D, Erlang, Fantom, Go, Java, JavaScript, Lua, .NET, Objective-C, Pharo, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scala and XQuery.

    13 mustache alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  5. EJS icon
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    What is the "E" for? "Embedded?" Could be. How about "Effective," "Elegant," or just "Easy"? EJS is a simple templating language that lets you generate HTML markup with plain JavaScript.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Interpose.js is a tiny, fast and flexible JavaScript templating engine that uses native JavaScript as its expression language, and configurable expression delimiters. Templates can come from any source, and are compiled into functions that can be applied to models numerous...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
     
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    A template plugin for jQuery. Allows templating without cluttering JavaScript code with markup. Simple, Concise yet powerful.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • jQuery
     
  8. Eta icon
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    Eta is a lightweight, embedded, pluggable, and super-fast JS template engine. Developed as an alternative to EJS, Eta is more lightweight, faster, and solves several parsing problems (like closing delimiters inside strings, multi-line comments, and left whitespace trimming) with...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
    • npm
     
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