mustache Alternatives

mustache is described as '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' and is an website in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to mustache, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows and Self-Hosted apps. The best mustache alternative is Kitten, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to mustache are Handlebars, Pug, Jinja and Underscore.js.

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  1. Kitten icon

    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.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Mac
    • Linux
     

    • Kitten is the most popular Mac, Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to mustache.

    • Kitten is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to mustache.

    • Kitten is Free and Open Sourcemustache is also Free and Open Source
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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

    • Handlebars is Free and Open Sourcemustache is also Free and Open Source
  4. Pug icon

    Pug

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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.

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. 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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    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
  6. Underscore.js icon

    Underscore.js

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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  7. Nunjucks icon

    Nunjucks

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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.

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    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
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  9. 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.

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    • Mac
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  10. Interpose.js

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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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
     

  11. jquery-template

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • jQuery
     
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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
    • npm
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  13. Dust.js

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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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    Phoenix Language

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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.

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