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Handlebars.js vs PureScript: What are the differences?

Developers describe Handlebars.js as "Minimal Templating on Steroids". 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. On the other hand, PureScript is detailed as "A strongly-typed language that compiles to Javascript". A small strongly typed programming language with expressive types that compiles to JavaScript, written in and inspired by Haskell.

Handlebars.js and PureScript can be categorized as "Templating Languages & Extensions" tools.

Handlebars.js and PureScript are both open source tools. It seems that Handlebars.js with 14.6K GitHub stars and 1.87K forks on GitHub has more adoption than PureScript with 5.86K GitHub stars and 427 GitHub forks.

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Asad Gilani

Software Engineer at Lisec Automation · Jun 15, 2020 | 5 upvotes · 230.9K views

Needs advice

Handlebars.js

and

Liquid

@All: I am searching for the best template engine for .NET. I started looking into several template engines, including the Dotliquid, Handlebars.js, Scriban, and Razorlight. I found handlebar a bit difficult to use when using the loops and condition because you need to register for helper first. DotLiquid and Scriban were easy to use and in Razorlight I did not find the example for loops.

Can you please suggest which template engine is best suited for the use of conditional/list and looping and why? Or if anybody could provide me a resource or link where I can compare which is best?

Thanks In Advance

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Josh Lind

Frontend Engineer · Jul 22, 2020 | 3 upvotes · 132.8K views

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Handlebars.js

I like Handlebars, it's very mature... some would say-- outdated.

Handlebars loops are done via {{#each myList}}. Read the docs! https://handlebarsjs.com/guide

Remember, don't put logic in your templates! Keep this layer simple. Sorry to hear you have to use dotNet.

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Simple
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Great templating language
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Open source
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Logicless
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Integrates well into any codebase
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Easy to create helper methods for complex scenarios
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Created by Yehuda Katz
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Easy For Fornt End Developers,learn backend
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Awesome

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Purely functional
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Great FFI to JavaScript
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The best type system
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Alternate backends
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Pursuit
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More Haskell-ish than Haskell
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Coherent type classes
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Libraries

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No JSX/Template
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Have Some Bugs
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What is 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.

What is PureScript?

A small strongly typed programming language with expressive types that compiles to JavaScript, written in and inspired by Haskell.

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What are some alternatives to Handlebars.js and PureScript?

AngularJS

AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.

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.

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.

Underscore

A JavaScript library that provides a whole mess of useful functional programming helpers without extending any built-in objects.

doT.js

It is a fastest and concise javascript template engine for Node.js and browsers. It was created in search of the fastest and concise JavaScript templating function with emphasis on performance under V8 and Node.js. It shows great performance for both Node.js and browsers.

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