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EJS

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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.

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  1.  Web-Based
  2.  Support for Javascript
  3.  Javascript scripting

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EJS information

  • Developed by

    Matthew Eernisse
  • Licensing

    Open Source (Apache-2.0) and Free product.
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  • Alternatives

    11 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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  •  849 Forks
  •  115 Open Issues
  •   Updated Feb 25, 2025 
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EJS was added to AlternativeTo by Thelle Christensen on Mar 17, 2014 and this page was last updated Oct 2, 2020. EJS is sometimes referred to as Embedded JavaScript.
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What is EJS?

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. No religiousness about how to organize things. No reinvention of iteration and control-flow. It's just plain JavaScript.

Use plain JavaScript We love JavaScript. It's a totally friendly language. All templating languages grow to be Turing-complete. Just cut out the middle-man, and use JS!

Fast development time Don't waste time and attention figuring out arcane new syntax because 'elegance' — or how to preprocess your data so it will actually render right.

Simple syntax JavaScript code in simple, straightforward scriptlet tags. Just write JavaScript that emits the HTML you want, and get the job done!

Speedy execution We all know how fast V8 and the other JavaScript runtimes have gotten. EJS caches the intermediate JS functions for fast execution.

Easy debugging It's easy to debug EJS errors: your errors are plain JavaScript exceptions, with template line-numbers included.

Active development EJS has a large community of active users, and the library is under active development. We're happy to answer your questions or give you help.

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