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Mustache vs Liquid: What are the differences?
What is Mustache? 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.
What is Liquid? Open-source template language written in Ruby. It is an open-source template language written in Ruby. It is the backbone of Shopify themes and is used to load dynamic content on storefronts. It is safe, customer facing template language for flexible web apps.
Mustache and Liquid belong to "Templating Languages & Extensions" category of the tech stack.
Mustache and Liquid are both open source tools. Mustache with 13.3K GitHub stars and 2.32K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Liquid with 7.36K GitHub stars and 958 GitHub forks.
Twitter, LinkedIn, and Trello are some of the popular companies that use Mustache, whereas Liquid is used by Axel Springer, DigitalGlobe, and SumOfUs. Mustache has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1264 company stacks & 144 developers stacks; compared to Liquid, which is listed in 30 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.
@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
Handlebars.jsI 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 some would say-- outdated.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.
Pros of Liquid
Pros of Mustache
- Dead simple templating29
- Open source12
- Small8
- Support in lots of languages1
