RactiveJS vs Emblem.js: What are the differences?

What is RactiveJS? Next-generation DOM manipulation. Ractive was originally created at theguardian.com to produce news applications. Ractive takes your Mustache templates and transforms them into a lightweight representation of the DOM – then when your data changes, it intelligently updates the real DOM.

What is Emblem.js? An indentation-based templating language. It is compiled to Handlebars.js that can then be compiled straight to JavaScript, that is finally rendered as HTML.

RactiveJS and Emblem.js belong to "Templating Languages & Extensions" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by RactiveJS are:

• Ractive.js is a template-driven UI library, but unlike other tools that generate inert HTML, it transforms your templates into blueprints for apps that are interactive by default.
• Two-way binding, animations, SVG support and more are provided out-of-the-box – but you can add whatever functionality you need by downloading and creating plugins.
• Some tools force you to learn a new vocabulary and structure your app in a particular way. Ractive works for you, not the other way around – and it plays well with other libraries.

On the other hand, Emblem.js provides the following key features:

• Ember-friendly
• Indented syntax
• Alternative for Handlebars.js

RactiveJS and Emblem.js are both open source tools. It seems that RactiveJS with 5.69K GitHub stars and 439 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Emblem.js with 1.07K GitHub stars and 84 GitHub forks.