Editing JavaScript template language shootoff This edit will create a new revision. Your details (optional) Name Email (won’t be displayed; might be used for Gravatar) URL Test case details Title * Published (uncheck if you want to fiddle around before making the page public) Description (in case you feel further explanation is needed)(Markdown syntax is allowed) A brief comparison of some JavaScript templating engines on a short template: 6 header tags, and 10 list items. Note: When adding a new test, please ensure that your test returns the same HTML string (or equivalent DOM fragment) as the others. Are you a spammer? (just answer the question) Preparation code Preparation code HTML (this will be inserted in the <body> of a valid HTML5 document in standards mode) (useful when testing DOM operations or including libraries) <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"> </script> <script src="http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/underscore.js"> </script> <script src="http://github.com/janl/mustache.js/raw/master/mustache.js"> </script> <script src="https://github.com/schuyler1d/mustache.js/raw/compiler_sky/mustache.js"> </script> <script src="http://github.com/pvande/Milk/raw/gh-pages/milk.js"> </script> <script src="http://terrainformatica.com/kite/kite.js"> </script> <script src="http://github.com/downloads/wycats/handlebars.js/handlebars-0.9.0.pre.4.js"> </script> <script src="http://gist.github.com/raw/550881/29bb186167079c0b33ab6e9d50d779f37860cfa4/micro.js"> </script> <script src="http://gist.github.com/raw/860205/8444586913ab249c619671b8f5054fc92dddf643/micro2.js"> </script> <script src="http://gist.github.com/raw/860240/cd98cacbdeee7eb2cfb2ca3ca76638dae2a5b1af/micro3.js"> </script> <script src="http://github.com/creationix/haml-js/raw/master/lib/haml.js"> </script> <script src="http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/extras/coffee-script.js"> </script> <script src="http://sstephenson.github.com/eco/dist/eco.js"> </script> <script src="http://github.com/jquery/jquery-tmpl/raw/master/jquery.tmpl.min.js"> </script> <script src="https://github.com/olado/doT/raw/master/doT.js"> </script> <script src="https://github.com/olado/doT/raw/master/doU.js"> </script> <script src="http://github.com/aefxx/jQote2/raw/69b2053a13f5f180e696de9b3dba856a3c00678c/jquery.jqote2.js"> </script> <script src="http://embeddedjavascript.googlecode.com/files/ejs_0.9_alpha_1_production.js"> </script> <script src="http://github.com/pure/pure/raw/master/libs/pure.js"> </script> <div class="pure"> <h1 class='header'> </h1> <h2 class='header2'> </h2> <h3 class='header3'> </h3> <h4 class='header4'> </h4> <h5 class='header5'> </h5> <h6 class='header6'> </h6> <ul class='list'> <li class='item'> </li> </ul> </div> <script src="http://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js/raw/master/json2.js"> </script> <script src="http://akdubya.github.com/dustjs/dist/dust-full-0.3.0.min.js"> </script> <script src="https://github.com/premasagar/tim/raw/master/tim.js"> </script> <script src="https://gist.github.com/raw/875670/d52752ead19a4eebc7237602438ae08a2541a5b5/tim-lite-cached-min.js"> </script> <script src="http://www.kuwata-lab.com/tenjin/shotenjin.js"> </script> <script src="https://github.com/QLeelulu/nTenjin/raw/master/nTenjin.js"> </script> <script src="https://github.com/shaunlee/node-jst/raw/master/jst.js"> </script> <script src="https://github.com/visionmedia/jade/raw/master/jade.min.js"> </script> <script src="http://rubaxa.github.com/AsyncTpl/dist/AsyncTpl.min.js"> </script> <script> window.mustacheTemplate = "<div><h1 class='header'>{{header}}</h1><h2 class='header2'>{{header2}}</h2><h3 class='header3'>{{header3}}</h3><h4 class='header4'>{{header4}}</h4><h5 class='header5'>{{header5}}</h5><h6 class='header6'>{{header6}}</h6><ul class='list'>{{#list}}<li class='item'>{{.}}</li>{{/list}}</ul></div>"; // note: exactly the same as the mustacheTemplate above. window.kiteTemplate = window.mustacheTemplate; window.kiteCompiledTemplate = kite(kiteTemplate); // seems like others are testing compiled versions. window.handlebarsTemplate = Handlebars.compile("<div><h1 class='header'>{{header}}</h1><h2 class='header2'>{{header2}}</h2><h3 class='header3'>{{header3}}</h3><h4 class='header4'>{{header4}}</h4><h5 class='header5'>{{header5}}</h5><h6 class='header6'>{{header6}}</h6><ul class='list'>{{#each list}}<li class='item'>{{this}}</li>{{/each}}</ul></div>"); window.micro = "<div><h1 class='header'><%= header %></h1><h2 class='header2'><%= header2 %></h2><h3 class='header3'><%= header3 %></h3><h4 class='header4'><%= header4 %></h4><h5 class='header5'><%= header5 %></h5><h6 class='header6'><%= header6 %></h6><ul class='list'><% for (var i = 0, l = list.length; i < l; i++) { %><li class='item'><%= list[i] %></li><% } %></ul></div>"; window.micro2 = "<div><h1 class='header'><%= data.header %></h1><h2 class='header2'><%= data.header2 %></h2><h3 class='header3'><%= data.header3 %></h3><h4 class='header4'><%= data.header4 %></h4><h5 class='header5'><%= data.header5 %></h5><h6 class='header6'><%= data.header6 %></h6><ul class='list'><% for (var i = 0, l = data.list.length; i < l; i++) { %><li class='item'><%= data.list[i] %></li><% } %></ul></div>"; window.underscoreTemplate = _.template(micro); window.resigTemplate = tmpl(micro); window.resigTemplate2 = tmpl2(micro2); window.resigTemplate3 = tmpl3(micro2); window.sharedVariables = { header: "Header", header2: "Header2", header3: "Header3", header4: "Header4", header5: "Header5", header6: "Header6", list: ['1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '10'] }; window.jadeTemplate = "div\n h1.header!= header\n h2.header2!= header2\n h3.header3!= header3\n h4.header4!= header4\n h5.header5!= header5\n h6.header6!= header6\n ul.list\n - each item in list\n li.item!= item"; window.hamlTemplate = Haml("%div\n %h1.header= header\n %h2.header2= header2\n %h3.header3= header3\n %h4.header4= header4\n %h5.header5= header5\n %h6.header6= header6\n %ul.list\n :each item in list\n %li.item= item"); window.ecoTemplate = eco("<div><h1 class='header'><%- @header %></h1><h2 class='header2'><%- @header2 %></h2><h3 class='header3'><%- @header3 %></h3><h4 class='header4'><%- @header4 %></h4><h5 class='header5'><%- @header5 %></h5><h6 class='header6'><%- @header6 %></h6><ul class='list'><% for item in @list: %><li class='item'><%- item %></li><% end %></ul></div>"); window.jQueryTemplate = $.template(null, "<div><h1 class='header'>{{html header}}</h1><h2 class='header2'>{{html header2}}</h2><h3 class='header3'>{{html header3}}</h3><h4 class='header4'>{{html header4}}</h4><h5 class='header5'>{{html header5}}</h5><h6 class='header6'>{{html header6}}</h6><ul class='list'>{{each list}}<li class='item'>{{html $value}}</li>{{/each}}</ul></div>"); window.doTtemplate = doT.template("<div><h1 class='header'>{{= it.header }}</h1><h2 class='header2'>{{= it.header2 }}</h2><h3 class='header3'>{{= it.header3 }}</h3><h4 class='header4'>{{= it.header4 }}</h4><h5 class='header5'>{{= it.header5 }}</h5><h6 class='header6'>{{= it.header6 }}</h6><ul class='list'>{{ for (var i = 0, l = it.list.length; i < l; i++) { }}<li class='item'>{{= it.list[i] }}</li>{{ } }}</ul></div>"); window.doUtemplate = doU.template("<div><h1 class='header'>{{= it.header }}</h1><h2 class='header2'>{{= it.header2 }}</h2><h3 class='header3'>{{= it.header3 }}</h3><h4 class='header4'>{{= it.header4 }}</h4><h5 class='header5'>{{= it.header5 }}</h5><h6 class='header6'>{{= it.header6 }}</h6><ul class='list'>{{ for (var i = 0, l = it.list.length; i < l; i++) { }}<li class='item'>{{= it.list[i] }}</li>{{ } }}</ul></div>"); window.jqote_tmpl = "<div><h1 class='header'><%= this.header %></h1><h2 class='header2'><%= this.header2 %></h2><h3 class='header3'><%= this.header3 %></h3><h4 class='header4'><%= this.header4 %></h4><h5 class='header5'><%= this.header5 %></h5><h6 class='header6'><%= this.header6 %></h6><ul class='list'><% for (var n = 0, l = this.list.length; n < l; n++) { %><li class='item'><%= this.list[n] %></li><% } %></ul></div>"; window.jqote2 = $.jqotec(jqote_tmpl); window.ejs = new EJS({ text: micro }); window.baseHtml = "<div><h1 class='header'></h1><h2 class='header2'></h2><h3 class='header3'></h3><h4 class='header4'></h4><h5 class='header5'></h5><h6 class='header6'></h6><ul class='list'><li class='item'></li></ul></div>"; window.pureTemplate = $p('div.pure').compile({ h1: 'header', h2: 'header2', h3: 'header3', h4: 'header4', h5: 'header5', h6: 'header6', li: { 'itm<-list': { '.': 'itm' } } }); window.hamlTemplate_2 = "%div\n %h1.header= header\n %h2.header2= header2\n %h3.header3= header3\n %h4.header4= header4\n %h5.header5= header5\n %h6.header6= header6\n %ul.list\n :each item in list\n %li.item= item"; window.hamlCompiled = Haml.compile(hamlTemplate_2); window.hamlOptimized = Haml.optimize(hamlCompiled); dust.loadSource(dust.compile("<div><h1 class='header'>{header}</h1><h2 class='header2'>{header2}</h2><h3 class='header3'>{header3}</h3><h4 class='header4'>{header4}</h4><h5 class='header5'>{header5}</h5><h6 class='header6'>{header6}</h6><ul class='list'>{#list}<li class='item'>{.}</li>{/list}</ul></div>", "dustTemplate")); window.timTemplate = "<div><h1 class='header'>{{header}}</h1><h2 class='header2'>{{header2}}</h2><h3 class='header3'>{{header3}}</h3><h4 class='header4'>{{header4}}</h4><h5 class='header5'>{{header5}}</h5><h6 class='header6'>{{header6}}</h6><ul class='list'>{{list}}<li class='item'>{{_content}}</li>{{/list}}</ul></div>"; window.timLiteTemplate = "<div><h1 class='header'>{{header}}</h1><h2 class='header2'>{{header2}}</h2><h3 class='header3'>{{header3}}</h3><h4 class='header4'>{{header4}}</h4><h5 class='header5'>{{header5}}</h5><h6 class='header6'>{{header6}}</h6><ul class='list'><li class='item'>{{list.0}}</li><li class='item'>{{list.1}}</li><li class='item'>{{list.2}}</li><li class='item'>{{list.3}}</li><li class='item'>{{list.4}}</li><li class='item'>{{list.5}}</li><li class='item'>{{list.6}}</li><li class='item'>{{list.7}}</li><li class='item'>{{list.8}}</li><li class='item'>{{list.9}}</li></ul></div>"; window.tenjinTemplate = "<div><h1 class='header'>#{ header }</h1><h2 class='header2'>#{ header2 }</h2><h3 class='header3'>#{ header3 }</h3><h4 class='header4'>#{ header4 }</h4><h5 class='header5'>#{ header5 }</h5><h6 class='header6'>#{ header6 }</h6><ul class='list'><?js for (var i = 0, l = list.length; i < l; i++) { ?><li class='item'>#{ list[i] }</li><?js } ?></ul></div>"; window.convertedTenjinTemplate = new Shotenjin.Template(); window.convertedTenjinTemplate.convert(tenjinTemplate); window.nTenjinTemplate = "<div><h1 class='header'>#{ it.header }</h1><h2 class='header2'>#{ it.header2 }</h2><h3 class='header3'>#{ it.header3 }</h3><h4 class='header4'>#{ it.header4 }</h4><h5 class='header5'>#{ it.header5 }</h5><h6 class='header6'>#{ it.header6 }</h6><ul class='list'><?js for (var i = 0, l = it.list.length; i < l; i++) { ?><li class='item'>#{ it.list[i] }</li><?js } ?></ul></div>"; window.convertednTenjinTemplate = new nTenjin.Template(); window.convertednTenjinTemplate.convert(nTenjinTemplate); window.jstTemplate = "<div><h1 class='header'>{{ header }}</h1><h2 class='header2'>{{ header2 }}</h2><h3 class='header3'>{{ header3 }}</h3><h4 class='header4'>{{ header4 }}</h4><h5 class='header5'>{{ header5 }}</h5><h6 class='header6'>{{ header6 }}</h6><ul class='list'>{% for (var i = 0, l = list.length; i < l; i++) { %}<li class='item'>{{ list[i] }}</li>{% } %}</ul></div>"; window.jstTemplateFn = jst.compile(jstTemplate); window.jstTemplate2 = "<div><h1 class='header'>{{ it.header }}</h1><h2 class='header2'>{{ it.header2 }}</h2><h3 class='header3'>{{ it.header3 }}</h3><h4 class='header4'>{{ it.header4 }}</h4><h5 class='header5'>{{ it.header5 }}</h5><h6 class='header6'>{{ it.header6 }}</h6><ul class='list'>{% for (var i = 0, l = it.list.length; i < l; i++) { %}<li class='item'>{{ it.list[i] }}</li>{% } %}</ul></div>"; window.jstTemplateFn2 = jst.compile(jstTemplate2); window.skytemplate = SkyMustache.template('test', window.mustacheTemplate); // <AsyncTpl var xtpl = AsyncTpl.engine('XML'); xtpl.ASYNC = false; xtpl.STREAM = false; xtpl.ROOT_DIR = './tests/xml/'; xtpl.DEBUG = false; var tpl = xtpl.fromString('<?xml version="1.0"?><xtpl:template xmlns:xtpl="http://rubaxa.org/"><div><h1 class="header"><xtpl:value>ctx.header</xtpl:value></h1><h2 class="header2"><xtpl:value>ctx.header1</xtpl:value></h2><h3 class="header3"><xtpl:value>ctx.header2</xtpl:value></h3><h4 class="header4"><xtpl:value>ctx.header3</xtpl:value></h4><h5 class="header5"><xtpl:value>ctx.header4</xtpl:value></h5><h6 class="header6"><xtpl:value>ctx.header5</xtpl:value></h6><ul class="list"><xtpl:foreach from="ctx.list" as="val"><li class="item"><xtpl:value>val</xtpl:value></li></xtpl:foreach></ul></div></xtpl:template>'); // pre-compile tpl.fetch({}, function() {}); // AsyncTpl > </script> Include JavaScript libraries as follows: <script src="//cdn.ext/library.js"></script> Define setup for all tests (variables, functions, arrays or other objects that will be used in the tests) (runs before each clocked test loop, outside of the timed code region) (e.g. define local test variables, reset global variables, clear canvas, etc.) (see FAQ) Define teardown for all tests (runs after each clocked test loop, outside of the timed code region) (see FAQ) Code snippets to compare Test 1 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code Mustache.to_html(mustacheTemplate, sharedVariables); Test 2 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code resigTemplate(sharedVariables); Test 3 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code hamlTemplate(sharedVariables); Test 4 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code jade.render(jadeTemplate, { locals: sharedVariables, filename: 'test.js', cache: true }); Test 5 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code underscoreTemplate(sharedVariables); Test 6 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code ecoTemplate(sharedVariables); Test 7 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code jQueryTemplate($, { data: sharedVariables }).join(""); Test 8 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code handlebarsTemplate(sharedVariables); Test 9 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code doTtemplate(sharedVariables); Test 10 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code doUtemplate(sharedVariables); Test 11 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code jqote2.call(sharedVariables, 0, 0, [sharedVariables], jqote2); Test 12 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code ejs.render(sharedVariables); Test 13 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code pureTemplate(sharedVariables); Test 14 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code Haml.execute(window.hamlOptimized, sharedVariables, sharedVariables); Test 15 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code var done = false; while (!done) { // Need better way to benchmark asynchronous functions dust.render("dustTemplate", sharedVariables, function() { done = true; }); } Test 16 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code kiteCompiledTemplate(sharedVariables); Test 17 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code resigTemplate2(sharedVariables); Test 18 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code resigTemplate3(sharedVariables); Test 19 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code Milk.render(mustacheTemplate, sharedVariables); Test 20 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code tim(timTemplate, sharedVariables); Test 21 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code timLiteCached(timLiteTemplate, sharedVariables); Test 22 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code Shotenjin.render(tenjinTemplate, sharedVariables); Test 23 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code convertedTenjinTemplate.render(sharedVariables); Test 24 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code convertednTenjinTemplate.render(sharedVariables); Test 25 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code jstTemplateFn(sharedVariables); Test 26 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code jstTemplateFn2(sharedVariables); Test 27 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code SkyMustache.tmpl("test", sharedVariables); Test 28 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code var done = false; while (!done) { tpl.fetch(sharedVariables, function(res) { done = true; }); }