Handlebars Alternatives

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

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Pug
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6 Pug alternatives
Pug, formerly Jade, is a high performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml and implemented with JavaScript for Node.js and browsers.
- - Pug is the most popular Windows, Mac, Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to Handlebars.
- - Pug is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Handlebars.
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Underscore.js
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13 Underscore.js alternatives
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.
- - Underscore.js is the most popular Web-based alternative to Handlebars.
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Interpose.js
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Free • Proprietary
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JavaScript
Node.JS
4 Interpose.js alternatives
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...
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EJS
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9 EJS alternatives
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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mustache
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10 mustache alternatives
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.
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jquery-template
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jQuery
3 jquery-template alternatives
A template plugin for jQuery. Allows templating without cluttering JavaScript code with markup. Simple, Concise yet powerful.
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1. Extensible by Plugins/Extensionsjquery-template can be extended with add-ons, plugins and extensions.
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Eta
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Node.JS
npm
8 Eta alternatives
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...
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1. LightweightEta consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
Custom delimiters
Dust.js
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6 Dust.js alternatives
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.
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slm
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7 slm alternatives
Slim, Jade like template engine for node.
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