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EJS vs Nunjucks: 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; Nunjucks: A templating language for JavaScript. Rich Powerful language with block inheritance, autoescaping, macros, asynchronous control, and more. Heavily inspired by jinja2. It supports all modern browsers.
EJS and Nunjucks can be categorized as "Templating Languages & Extensions" tools.
EJS and Nunjucks are both open source tools. It seems that Nunjucks with 6.18K GitHub stars and 544 forks on GitHub has more adoption than EJS with 3.71K GitHub stars and 418 GitHub forks.
TapTag, Gridle, and Climatempo are some of the popular companies that use EJS, whereas Nunjucks is used by Uploadcare, F.biz, and Madyourself. EJS has a broader approval, being mentioned in 9 company stacks & 13 developers stacks; compared to Nunjucks, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.
Pros of EJS
- It'a easy to understand the concept behind it5
- For a beginner it's just plain javascript code5
- Quick for templating UI project3
- You almost know how to use it from start2
Pros of Nunjucks
- Easy sintaxis like JS2
- Supported by Mozilla2