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EJS vs Hogan.js: What are the differences?
# Introduction
In this comparison, we will highlight key differences between EJS and Hogan.js.
1. **Syntax Differences**: EJS uses `<% %>` and `<%= %>` tags for control flow and output, while Hogan.js uses `{{ }}` and `{{{ }}}` for the same purposes.
2. **Performance**: EJS is said to be faster than Hogan.js in terms of template rendering, making it a preferred choice for projects where speed is essential.
3. **Flexibility**: EJS allows the use of JavaScript code within the template, providing more flexibility in terms of logic and data manipulation compared to Hogan.js, which has a more limited feature set.
4. **Maintenance**: Hogan.js is no longer actively maintained, while EJS is still being actively developed and updated, ensuring better support and compatibility with modern web technologies.
5. **Community Support**: EJS has a larger community of users and contributors, which means more resources, tutorials, and support available for developers using EJS compared to Hogan.js.
6. **Filtering and Escaping**: Hogan.js has built-in support for automatic HTML escaping, while EJS requires manual escaping of output to prevent cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.
In Summary, EJS and Hogan.js differ in syntax, performance, flexibility, maintenance, community support, and filtering/escaping mechanisms.
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Pros of EJS
- For a beginner it's just plain javascript code6
- It'a easy to understand the concept behind it6
- You almost know how to use it from start3
- Quick for templating UI project3
Pros of Hogan.js
- Lightweight3
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What is 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.
What is 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.
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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.
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.
JSX
It is designed to run on modern web browsers. It performs optimization while compiling the source code to JavaScript. The generated code runs faster than an equivalent code written directly in 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.