Pug Alternatives

Apps similar to Pug include Jinja, which is free and open source. Other options are mustache, Handlebars, Kitten and EJS. In total there are nine Code Editors like Pug for Linux, Mac, Windows, the web and self-hosting.

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  1. 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.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
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  2. mustache icon
     4 likes

    Minimal logic-less template engine supporting over 20 languages, enabling separation of logic and view for web, desktop, and static content. Templates are portable, reusable, open-source, suitable for server or client side use, and integrate with various development workflows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
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  3. Handlebars icon
     12 likes

    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
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  4. Kitten icon
     1 like

    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.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  5. EJS icon
     4 likes

    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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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. Haml icon
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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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
    • npm
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  8. Twig icon
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    Twig, the flexible, fast, and secure template language for PHP.

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
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  9.  Like

    Slim, Jade like template engine for node.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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