Which templating engine can I use with both JS and PHP?

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I'm looking for a simple Template engine that works both on client side with JS ánd on server side with PHP.

That means I want to be able to use the same template definition for both use cases.

Do you know any templating engines that have official implementations in both JS and PHP?

I'm asking myself same question nowadays, and looks to me more about existence of working implementations and their status than a recommendation, the problem is obvious, edit templates only once, should be a common problem so why there are so few (or not production ready) solutions? what are best practices to share templates? or if it is a evil thing, why? — Alex, Sep 21 '14 at 18:31
See [Contemplate engine](https://github.com/foo123/Contemplate) which was specificaly designed to be isomorphic and be used in js/node/php/python. It is also both extremely fast and extremely flexible supporting template inherittance and many features (similar to twig/swig) (ps I am the author) — Nikos M., Nov 06 '18 at 13:35

mPrinC · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-20T13:07:57.070

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If you like JS->PHP priority :) then you have this two jquery-tmpl compatible template renderer for PHP backend

If you prefer more PHP->JS priority :) then you can try this Javascript implementation of popular PHP templating Smarty

http://code.google.com/p/jsmart/

Or you can try something more neutral like:

Mustache http://mustache.github.com/

edited May 20 '11 at 13:07

answered May 20 '11 at 12:44

mPrinC

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This is what I call a good answer. Short, accurate and explanatory. Cheers – toraman May 17 '16 at 11:36

GromNaN · Answer 2 · 2011-12-13T17:12:38.600

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You have a new option to compile templates for both PHP and JS using Twig + Twig.js

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answered Oct 18 '11 at 16:12

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thanks :) i'll have a look at it – Florian Oct 18 '11 at 21:24
have you used TwigJS? it looks to me as if it doesn't have any of the standard filters or functions actually implemented (?) – mindplay.dk Dec 30 '12 at 23:44
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There's also another Twig implementation in JS here: https://github.com/justjohn/twig.js/ that's more full-featured. – adrienne May 24 '13 at 03:48
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AFAIK, all JS versions of Twig are but subsets of the PHP version of Twig and none of them are official implementations. – John Slegers Mar 13 '14 at 21:21

score 16 · Answer 3 · answered May 14 '11 at 18:50

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Do you mean something like mustache?

answered May 14 '11 at 18:50

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That's it, i saw this some days ago, but i neither remembered where i saw it nor what it was called :) Thanks! (I have to wait 4 more minutes to accept your answer). – Florian May 14 '11 at 18:55
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Depending on your needs, Mustache may be too simple - if you're hoping to e.g. `json_encode()` your view-models and render your views both client- and server-side, you may find that simple things like formatting numbers or dates still requires you to write both client and server functions, whereas Twig and Twig.js may provide a lot more of that stuff out of the box. – mindplay.dk Nov 21 '13 at 13:50

John Slegers · Answer 4 · 2016-01-22T18:06:19.813

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Use Mustache!

AFAIK, Mustache is the only template engine that has official implementations in both PHP and JS... along with two dozen programming/scripting languages.

Twig does have a JS version, but that's incomplete and AFAIK unofficial.
Smarty does have a JS version, but it's also an unofficial port... and Smarty is getting a bit outdated.

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answered Mar 13 '14 at 21:18

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Which templating engine can I use with both JS and PHP?

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