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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.
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 Pug
- Elegant html136
- Great with nodejs89
- Very short syntax58
- Open source57
- Structured with indentation53
- Free23
- It's not HAML5
- Really similar to Slim (from Ruby fame)5
- Gulp5
- Clean syntax4
- Readable code4
- Easy setup4
- Difficult For Front End Developers,learn backend4
- Disdain for angled brackets3