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What would be a node.js templating library that is similar to Jinja2 in Python?

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  • I would prefer [nunjucks](https://www.npmjs.com/package/nunjucks), as it was even *referred* by jinja2 – Jake Aug 19 '21 at 23:41

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https://mozilla.github.io/nunjucks

Nunjucks is basically a JS port of Jinja2

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Maybe a list of template engines for node.js can help here too.

List of template engines

  • Pug: Haml-inspired template engine (formerly Jade).
  • Haml.js: Haml implementation.
  • EJS: Embedded JavaScript template engine.
  • hbs: Adapter for Handlebars.js, an extension of Mustache.js template engine.
  • Squirrelly: Blazing-fast template engine that supports partials, helpers, custom tags, filters, and caching. Not white-space sensitive, works with any language.
  • Eta: Super-fast lightweight embedded JS template engine. Supports custom delimiters, async, whitespace control, partials, caching, plugins.
  • React: Renders React components on the server. It renders static markup and does not support mounting those views on the client.
  • combyne.js: A template engine that hopefully works the way you'd expect.
  • Nunjucks: Inspired by jinja/twig.
  • marko: A fast and lightweight HTML-based templating engine that compiles templates to CommonJS modules and supports streaming, async rendering and custom tags. (Renders directly to the HTTP response stream).
  • whiskers: Small, fast, mustachioed.
  • Blade: HTML Template Compiler, inspired by Jade & Haml.
  • Haml-Coffee: Haml templates where you can write inline CoffeeScript.
  • express-hbs: Handlebars with layouts, partials and blocks for express 3 from Barc.
  • express-handlebars: A Handlebars view engine for Express which doesn't suck.
  • express-views-dom: A DOM view engine for Express.
  • rivets-server: Render Rivets.js templates on the server.
  • LiquidJS: A simple, expressive and safe template engine.
  • express-tl: A template-literal engine implementation for Express.
  • Twing: First-class Twig engine for Node.js.
  • Sprightly: A very light-weight JS template engine (45 lines of code), that consists of all the bare-bones features that you want to see in a template engine.

(Some of these libs may be outdated or unmaintained.)

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jinja-js aims to fe a feature complete reimplementation of the jinja2 template engine in Javascript. To my understanding the other options mentioned here some of the many, many templating engine options available for Javascript.

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Nunjucks & Swig

This 2 are similar Django, Jinja2, and Twig template engines.

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    Swig is no longer maintained according to its github page https://github.com/paularmstrong/swig – kiril Sep 23 '16 at 01:38
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The ejs is the npm module which you are looking for.

  • This is the name written in my package.json file --> "ejs": "^3.1.3"

  • EJS is a simple templating language that lets you generate HTML markup with plain JavaScript.(Credits: Ejs website)

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