Pug Alternatives

Pug is described as 'Formerly Jade, is a high performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml and implemented with JavaScript for Node.js and browsers' and is an app in the development category. There are eight alternatives to Pug for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best Pug alternative is Handlebars, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Pug are Jinja, mustache, EJS and Haml.

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Pug alternatives page was last updated Apr 1, 2025
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  1. Handlebars icon

    Handlebars

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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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online

    Handlebars VS Pug

     

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

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

    • Handlebars is Free and Open SourcePug is also Free and Open Source
  2. Jinja icon

    Jinja

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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.

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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Python

    Jinja VS Pug

     

    • Jinja is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Pug.

    • Jinja is Free and Open SourcePug is also Free and Open Source

  4. mustache

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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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online

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  5. EJS icon

    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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    EJS Features

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

    EJS VS Pug

     
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    Haml

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    Haml (HTML Abstraction Markup Language) is a lightweight markup language that is used to describe the XHTML of any web document without the use of traditional inline coding. It’s designed to address many of the flaws in traditional templating engines, as well as making markup as...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Haml Features

    1.  Content Templates

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    Kitten

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    Kitten HTML Templates is a lightweight and minimalistic templating system for JavaScript, designed for simplicity and performance. It allows developers to dynamically generate HTML using a syntax similar to standard HTML, without requiring heavy dependencies or complex logic.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Mac
    • Linux

    Kitten VS Pug

     
  9. Eta icon

    Eta

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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...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
    • npm
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    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Custom delimiters

    Eta VS Pug

     

  10. slm

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    Slim, Jade like template engine for node.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    slm VS Pug

     
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