EJS vs Mustache: What are the differences?

Developers describe EJS as "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. On the other hand, Mustache is detailed as "Logic-less templates". 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.

EJS and Mustache can be categorized as "Templating Languages & Extensions" tools.

EJS and Mustache are both open source tools. It seems that Mustache with 13.2K GitHub stars and 2.31K forks on GitHub has more adoption than EJS with 3.71K GitHub stars and 418 GitHub forks.

Twitter, Trello, and Buffer are some of the popular companies that use Mustache, whereas EJS is used by TapTag, Gridle, and Climatempo. Mustache has a broader approval, being mentioned in 270 company stacks & 142 developers stacks; compared to EJS, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 13 developer stacks.