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://twitter.github.com/hogan.js/builds/2.0.0/hogan-2.0.0.js"></script> <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script> <script src="http://opheleon.com/ejspeed.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="http://cloud.github.com/downloads/wycats/handlebars.js/handlebars-0.9.0.pre.3.js"></script> <script src="http://gist.github.com/raw/550881/29bb186167079c0b33ab6e9d50d779f37860cfa4/micro.js"></script> <script src="http://github.com/creationix/haml-js/raw/master/lib/haml.js"></script> <script src="http://gist.github.com/raw/550723/12d176698628e30a1df398c7ac7aea93924e1294/jade.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://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery.templates/beta1/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="https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js/raw/master/json2.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>"; window.hoganTemplate = Hogan.compile(window.mustacheTemplate); 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.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 = $.template(null, "<div><h1 class='header'>${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'>${header6}</h6><ul class='list'>{{each list}}<li class='item'>${$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.ejspeed = new EJSpeed({ text: micro2 }); 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); var ip = document.getElementById('insertionPoint'); </script> <div id="insertionPoint"></div> 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 ip.innerHTML = Mustache.to_html(mustacheTemplate, sharedVariables); Test 2 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code ip.innerHTML = hamlTemplate(sharedVariables); Test 3 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code ip.innerHTML = jade.render(jadeTemplate, { locals: sharedVariables, filename: 'test.js', cache: true }); Test 4 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code ip.innerHTML = underscoreTemplate(sharedVariables); Test 5 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code ip.innerHTML = ecoTemplate(sharedVariables); Test 6 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code ip.innerHTML = $.tmpl(jQueryTemplate, sharedVariables); Test 7 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code ip.innerHTML = handlebarsTemplate(sharedVariables); Test 8 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code ip.innerHTML = doTtemplate(sharedVariables); Test 9 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code ip.innerHTML = doUtemplate(sharedVariables); Test 10 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code ip.innerHTML = jqote2.call(sharedVariables, 0, 0, [sharedVariables], jqote2); Test 11 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code ip.innerHTML = ejs.render(sharedVariables); Test 12 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code ip.innerHTML = pureTemplate(sharedVariables); Test 13 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code ip.innerHTML = Haml.execute(window.hamlOptimized, sharedVariables, sharedVariables); Test 14 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code ip.innerHTML = hoganTemplate.render(sharedVariables); Test 15 Title Async (check if this is an asynchronous test) Code ip.innerHTML = ejspeed.render(sharedVariables);