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 more than 10 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 Nunjucks, Jinja, mustache and Underscore.js.

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Handlebars alternatives page was last updated Feb 8, 2025
  1. 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.

    7 Pug alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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    Pug VS Handlebars

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    • Pug is the most popular Windows, Mac, Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to Handlebars.

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

    • Pug is Free and Open SourceHandlebars is also Free and Open Source
  2. Nunjucks icon
     1 like

    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.

    7 Nunjucks alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
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  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.

    12 Jinja alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
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  4.  4 likes

    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.

    12 mustache alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Online
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    • mustache is the most popular Web-based alternative to Handlebars.

    • mustache is Free and Open SourceHandlebars is also Free and Open Source
  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.

    14 Underscore.js alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Online

    Underscore.js Features

    1.  Functional Language
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    Comments about Underscore.js as an Alternative to Handlebars
     
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    Underscore is a lot more than just a templating engine.

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    • Underscore.js is Free and Open SourceHandlebars is also Free and Open Source
  6. 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.

    11 EJS alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    EJS Features

    1.  Web-Based
    2.  Support for Javascript
    3.  Javascript scripting
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  7.  2 likes

    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...

    6 Interpose.js alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
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  8.  2 likes

    A template plugin for jQuery. Allows templating without cluttering JavaScript code with markup. Simple, Concise yet powerful.

    4 jquery-template alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • jQuery

    jquery-template Features

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    2.  Content Templates
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  9. 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...

    9 Eta alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
    • npm

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Custom delimiters
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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.

    8 Dust.js alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Online

    Dust.js Features

    1.  Content Templates
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    Slim, Jade like template engine for node.

    9 slm alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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