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 mustache, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to Dust.js are Handlebars, Jinja, Nunjucks and EJS.

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  1. mustache icon
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    Minimal logic-less template engine supporting over 20 languages, enabling separation of logic and view for web, desktop, and static content. Templates are portable, reusable, open-source, suitable for server or client side use, and integrate with various development workflows.

    13 mustache alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  2. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  3. 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

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
  4. 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

    Platforms

    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
     
  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

    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
     
  7. 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 (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
    • npm
     
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