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Pug vs Smarty: What are the differences?
What is 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.
What is Smarty? Template engine for PHP. Facilitating the separation of presentation (HTML/CSS) from application logic. This implies that PHP code is application logic, and is separated from the presentation.
Pug and Smarty belong to "Templating Languages & Extensions" category of the tech stack.
Pug is an open source tool with 18.5K GitHub stars and 1.9K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Pug's open source repository on GitHub.
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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
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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.
What is Smarty?
Facilitating the separation of presentation (HTML/CSS) from application logic. This implies that PHP code is application logic, and is separated from the presentation
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What are some alternatives to Pug and Smarty?
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.
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.
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.
TypeScript
TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. It's a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.
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.