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What is 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.
Pug is a tool in the Templating Languages & Extensions category of a tech stack.
Pug is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Pug's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Pug?

Companies
250 companies reportedly use Pug in their tech stacks, including Glovo, Accenture, and Coursera.

Developers
883 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Pug.

Pug Integrations

Node.js, AnyChart, Prepros, Lad, and squido are some of the popular tools that integrate with Pug. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with Pug.
Pros of Pug
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Elegant html
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Great with nodejs
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Open source
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Very short syntax
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Structured with indentation
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Free
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Really similar to Slim (from Ruby fame)
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It's not HAML
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Gulp
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Clean syntax
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Readable code
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Easy setup
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Difficult For Front End Developers,learn backend
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Disdain for angled brackets

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Pug Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Pug?
EJS
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.
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.
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.
TypeScript
TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. It's a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.
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.
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Pug's Followers
1190 developers follow Pug to keep up with related blogs and decisions.