EJS Alternatives

EJS is described as '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' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to EJS for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Mac, Windows, Linux and JavaScript apps. The best EJS alternative is Handlebars, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like EJS are Pug, Jinja, Nunjucks and Underscore.js.

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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 EJS.

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

    • Handlebars is Free and Open SourceEJS is also Free and Open Source
  2. Pug icon
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    Pug, formerly Jade, is a high performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml and implemented with JavaScript for Node.js and browsers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Pug is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to EJS.

    • Pug is Free and Open SourceEJS is also Free and Open Source
  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

    • Free
    • Open Source

    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

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
     
  5. Underscore.js icon
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    Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6.  4 likes
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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
     
  7. Lodash icon
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    Lo-Dash is a drop-in replacement for Underscore.js that delivers performance improvements, bug fixes, and additional features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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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
     
  9.  Like
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    Slim, Jade like template engine for node.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10.  Like
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. 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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