EJS vs Slim Lang

Overview

Slim Lang

Stacks65

Followers57

Votes50

GitHub Stars5.4K

Forks499

EJS

Stacks522

Followers359

Votes18

GitHub Stars8.0K

Forks859

EJS vs Slim Lang: What are the differences?

EJS: An Embedded JavaScript templating Language. It is a simple templating language that lets you generate HTML markup with plain JavaScript. No religiousness about how to organize things. No reinvention of iteration and control-flow. It's just plain JavaScript; Slim Lang: Template language whose goal is reduce the syntax to the essential parts without becoming cryptic. Slim is a template language whose goal is to reduce the view syntax to the essential parts without becoming cryptic. It started as an exercise to see how much could be removed from a standard html template (<, >, closing tags, etc...). As more people took an interest in Slim, the functionality grew and so did the flexibility of the syntax.

EJS and Slim Lang belong to "Templating Languages & Extensions" category of the tech stack.

EJS and Slim Lang are both open source tools. It seems that Slim Lang with 4.85K GitHub stars and 477 forks on GitHub has more adoption than EJS with 3.71K GitHub stars and 418 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Slim Lang has a broader approval, being mentioned in 14 company stacks & 39 developers stacks; compared to EJS, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 13 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Slim Lang	EJS
Slim is a template language whose goal is to reduce the view syntax to the essential parts without becoming cryptic. It started as an exercise to see how much could be removed from a standard html template (<, >, closing tags, etc...). As more people took an interest in Slim, the functionality grew and so did the flexibility of the syntax.	It is a simple templating language that lets you generate HTML markup with plain JavaScript. No religiousness about how to organize things. No reinvention of iteration and control-flow. It's just plain JavaScript.
-	Template caching and partials;Intelligent error handling with line numbers
Statistics
GitHub Stars 5.4K	GitHub Stars 8.0K
GitHub Forks 499	GitHub Forks 859
Stacks 65	Stacks 522
Followers 57	Followers 359
Votes 50	Votes 18
Pros & Cons
Pros 13 Easier to type and maintain than haml 12 Very clean and logical 9 Integrates with Rails by installing a single gem 8 Performs better than haml 4 Concise Cons 2 Not so good editor support 1 Lots of syntactic corner cases 1 Overcomplicated syntax 1 Easy to break nesting when reindenting or copy-pasting	Pros 6 It'a easy to understand the concept behind it 6 For a beginner it's just plain javascript code 3 You almost know how to use it from start 3 Quick for templating UI project

What are some alternatives to Slim Lang, EJS?

TypeScript

TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. It's a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.

Pug

This project was formerly known as "Jade." Pug is a high performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml and implemented with JavaScript for Node.js and browsers.

Handlebars.js

Handlebars.js is an extension to the Mustache templating language created by Chris Wanstrath. Handlebars.js and Mustache are both logicless templating languages that keep the view and the code separated like we all know they should be.

Mustache

Mustache is a logic-less template syntax. It can be used for HTML, config files, source code - anything. It works by expanding tags in a template using values provided in a hash or object. We call it "logic-less" because there are no if statements, else clauses, or for loops. Instead there are only tags. Some tags are replaced with a value, some nothing, and others a series of values.

RactiveJS

Ractive was originally created at theguardian.com to produce news applications. Ractive takes your Mustache templates and transforms them into a lightweight representation of the DOM – then when your data changes, it intelligently updates the real DOM.

Jinja

It is a full featured template engine for Python. It has full unicode support, an optional integrated sandboxed execution environment, widely used and BSD licensed.

Twig

It is a modern template engine for PHP. It is flexible, fast, and secure. Its syntax originates from Jinja and Django templates.

Nunjucks

Rich Powerful language with block inheritance, autoescaping, macros, asynchronous control, and more. Heavily inspired by jinja2. It supports all modern browsers.

Hogan.js

Hogan.js is a 3.4k JS templating engine developed at Twitter. Use it as a part of your asset packager to compile templates ahead of time or include it in your browser to handle dynamic templates.