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, Linux, Windows and Self-Hosted apps. The best Handlebars alternative is Kitten, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Handlebars are Pug, mustache, Underscore.js and Jinja.

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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.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Mac
    • Linux
     

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

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

    • Kitten is Free and Open SourceHandlebars is also Free and Open Source
  2. Pug icon

    Pug

     11 likes

    Pug, formerly Jade, is a high performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml and implemented with JavaScript for Node.js and browsers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     

    • Pug is the most popular Windows alternative to Handlebars.

    • Pug is Free and Open SourceHandlebars is also Free and Open Source

  4. mustache

     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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     

    • 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

    Underscore.js

     12 likes

    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

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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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. Jinja icon

    Jinja

     1 like

    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.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
  7. Nunjucks icon

    Nunjucks

     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.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
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  9. EJS icon

    EJS

     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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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     

  10. Interpose.js

     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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
     

  11. jquery-template

     2 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • jQuery
     
  12. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
    • npm
    Eta screenshot 1
     

  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

    Platforms

    • Online
    Dust.js screenshot 1
     

  14. slm

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    Slim, Jade like template engine for node.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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