A powerful templating engine with inheritance, asynchronous control, and more (jinja2 inspired)
Nunjucks is a full featured templating engine for javascript. It is heavily inspired by jinja2. View the docs here.
npm install nunjucks
To use the file watcher built-in to Nunjucks, Chokidar must be installed separately.
npm install nunjucks chokidar
(View the CHANGELOG)
See here.
Supported in all modern browsers. For IE8 support, use es5-shim.
Run the tests with npm test.
Watch master branch's tests running in the browser.
Join our mailing list and get help with and issues you have: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/nunjucks
Contributions are always welcome! Before you submit an issue or pull request, please read our contribution guidelines.
Handlebars is another popular templating engine for JavaScript. It uses a similar syntax to Nunjucks but is more focused on simplicity and logic-less templates. Handlebars is known for its ease of use and integration with various frameworks.
EJS (Embedded JavaScript) is a templating engine that allows you to generate HTML with plain JavaScript. It is less feature-rich compared to Nunjucks but is very straightforward and easy to use, making it a good choice for simple templating needs.
Pug, formerly known as Jade, is a high-performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml. It uses indentation-based syntax, which can be more concise but also has a steeper learning curve compared to Nunjucks. Pug is known for its clean and readable templates.
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A powerful templating engine with inheritance, asynchronous control, and more (jinja2 inspired)
The npm package nunjucks receives a total of 1,086,095 weekly downloads. As such, nunjucks popularity was classified as popular.
We found that nunjucks demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 5 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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