Jinja Alternatives

Jinja is described as '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' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Jinja for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Mac, Windows, Linux and JavaScript apps. The best Jinja alternative is Handlebars, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Jinja are Pug, Nunjucks, mustache and Underscore.js.

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Jinja alternatives page was last updated Feb 8, 2025
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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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online

    Handlebars VS Jinja

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

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

    • Handlebars is Free and Open SourceJinja 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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted

    Pug VS Jinja

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

    • Pug is Free and Open SourceJinja is also Free and Open Source
  3. Nunjucks icon
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    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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS

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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.

    13 mustache alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Online

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  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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Online

    Underscore.js Features

    1.  Functional Language

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  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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    EJS Features

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

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    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...

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS

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

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • jQuery

    jquery-template Features

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    2.  Content Templates

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    Phoenix is a lightweight language and template engine which allows to program PHP web servers with a more concise and readable syntax.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

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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.

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Online

    Dust.js Features

    1.  Content Templates

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  11. 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...

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
    • npm

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Custom delimiters

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    Slim, Jade like template engine for node.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    slm VS Jinja

     
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