What is 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.
Jinja is a tool in the Templating Languages & Extensions category of a tech stack.
Jinja is an open source tool with 10.4K GitHub stars and 1.6K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Jinja's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Jinja?
Companies
68 companies reportedly use Jinja in their tech stacks, including vault.uber.com, Kaidee, and stackstorm.
Developers
407 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Jinja.
Jinja Integrations
JavaScript, Git, Python, Node.js, and Ember.js are some of the popular tools that integrate with Jinja. Here's a list of all 9 tools that integrate with Jinja.
Pros of Jinja
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Decisions about Jinja
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Jinja in their tech stack.
Sandeep Shiven
I have learned both Python and JavaScript. I also tried my hand at Django. But i found it difficult to work with Django, on frontend its Jinja format is very confusing and limited. I have not tried Node.js yet and unsure which tool to go ahead with. I want an internship as soon as possible so please answer keeping that in mind.
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Jinja's Features
- Powerful automatic HTML escaping system for cross site scripting prevention
- Template inheritance makes it possible to use the same or a similar layout for all templates
- High performance with just in time compilation to Python bytecode
- Translate your template sources on first load into Python bytecode for best runtime performance
- Optional ahead-of-time compilation
- Easy to debug
- Configurable syntax
- Template designer helpers
Jinja Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Jinja?
Django
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
Flask
Flask is intended for getting started very quickly and was developed with best intentions in mind.
Liquid
It is an open-source template language written in Ruby. It is the backbone of Shopify themes and is used to load dynamic content on storefronts. It is safe, customer facing template language for flexible web apps.
React
Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.
YAML
A human-readable data-serialization language. It is commonly used for configuration files, but could be used in many applications where data is being stored or transmitted.
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