Twig Alternatives

Twig is described as 'The flexible, fast, and secure template language for PHP' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Twig for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Linux, Windows, Self-Hosted and Web-based apps. The best Twig alternative is mustache, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Twig are Jinja, Handlebars, Kitten and Pug.

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  1. mustache icon
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    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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  2. 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.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
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  3. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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  4. Kitten icon
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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
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  5. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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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.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. 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)

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. Knap icon
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    Knap is a flexible template language for creating Markdown. It is shared by Obsidian tools, including Web Clipper and Importer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • JavaScript
    • Typescript
    • Self-Hosted
    • npm
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  10.  Like

    Slim, Jade like template engine for node.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
    • npm
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