Eta Alternatives

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

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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.

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

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

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

    • Handlebars is Free and Open SourceEta 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 Eta.

    • Pug is Free and Open SourceEta 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. 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
     
  5.  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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. 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
     
  7. 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
     
  8.  Like
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    Slim, Jade like template engine for node.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9.  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
     
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