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Hogan.js vs Pug: What are the differences?
What is Hogan.js? A compiler for the Mustache templating language. Hogan.js is a 3.4k JS templating engine developed at Twitter. Use it as a part of your asset packager to compile templates ahead of time or include it in your browser to handle dynamic templates.
What is Pug? Robust, elegant, feature rich template engine for nodejs. This project was formerly known as "Jade." Pug is a high performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml and implemented with JavaScript for Node.js and browsers.
Hogan.js and Pug can be primarily classified as "Templating Languages & Extensions" tools.
"Lightweight" is the primary reason why developers consider Hogan.js over the competitors, whereas "Elegant html" was stated as the key factor in picking Pug.
Hogan.js and Pug are both open source tools. Pug with 18.4K GitHub stars and 1.9K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Hogan.js with 5K GitHub stars and 437 GitHub forks.
Pros of Hogan.js
- Lightweight3
Pros of Pug
- Elegant html138
- Great with nodejs90
- Open source59
- Very short syntax59
- Structured with indentation54
- Free25
- Really similar to Slim (from Ruby fame)6
- It's not HAML6
- Gulp6
- Clean syntax5
- Readable code5
- Easy setup5
- Difficult For Front End Developers,learn backend5
- Disdain for angled brackets4
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