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EJS vs Pug: 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; Pug: Robust, elegant, feature rich template engine for nodejs. 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.

EJS and Pug belong to "Templating Languages & Extensions" category of the tech stack.

EJS and Pug are both open source tools. It seems that Pug with 18.5K GitHub stars and 1.9K forks on GitHub has more adoption than EJS with 3.71K GitHub stars and 418 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Pug has a broader approval, being mentioned in 230 company stacks & 608 developers stacks; compared to EJS, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 13 developer stacks.

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Pros of EJS
Pros of Pug
  • 5
    It'a easy to understand the concept behind it
  • 5
    For a beginner it's just plain javascript code
  • 3
    Quick for templating UI project
  • 2
    You almost know how to use it from start
  • 136
    Elegant html
  • 89
    Great with nodejs
  • 58
    Very short syntax
  • 57
    Open source
  • 53
    Structured with indentation
  • 23
    Free
  • 5
    It's not HAML
  • 5
    Really similar to Slim (from Ruby fame)
  • 5
    Gulp
  • 4
    Clean syntax
  • 4
    Readable code
  • 4
    Easy setup
  • 4
    Difficult For Front End Developers,learn backend
  • 3
    Disdain for angled brackets

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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 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.

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