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  5. Pug vs React Storybook

Pug vs React Storybook

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Overview

Pug
Pug
Stacks1.3K
Followers1.2K
Votes467
React Storybook
React Storybook
Stacks635
Followers355
Votes0

Pug vs React Storybook: What are the differences?

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.

What is React Storybook? Develop and design React components without an app. You just load your UI components into the React Storybook and start developing them. This functionality allows you to develop UI components rapidly without worrying about the app. It will improve your team’s collaboration and feedback loop.

Pug can be classified as a tool in the "Templating Languages & Extensions" category, while React Storybook is grouped under "MVC Tools".

Pug and React Storybook are both open source tools. It seems that React Storybook with 39.4K GitHub stars and 3.23K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Pug with 18.4K GitHub stars and 1.9K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Pug has a broader approval, being mentioned in 174 company stacks & 119 developers stacks; compared to React Storybook, which is listed in 43 company stacks and 22 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Pug
Pug
React Storybook
React Storybook

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.

You just load your UI components into the React Storybook and start developing them. This functionality allows you to develop UI components rapidly without worrying about the app. It will improve your team’s collaboration and feedback loop.

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Isolated environment for your components (with the use of various iframe tactics);Hot module reloading (even for functional stateless components);Works with any app (whether it's Redux, Relay or Meteor);Support for CSS (whether it's plain old CSS, CSS modules or something fancy);Clean and fast user interface;Runs inside your project (so, it uses your app's NPM modules and babel configurations out of the box);Serves static files (if you host static files inside your app);Deploy the whole storybook as a static app;Extendable as necessary (support for custom webpack loaders and plugins)
Statistics
Stacks
1.3K
Stacks
635
Followers
1.2K
Followers
355
Votes
467
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 138
    Elegant html
  • 90
    Great with nodejs
  • 59
    Very short syntax
  • 59
    Open source
  • 54
    Structured with indentation
Cons
  • 5
    Hard dependency to Babel loader
Integrations
Node.js
Node.js
React
React
React Native
React Native
Vue.js
Vue.js

What are some alternatives to Pug, React Storybook?

TypeScript

TypeScript

TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. It's a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.

Handlebars.js

Handlebars.js

Handlebars.js is an extension to the Mustache templating language created by Chris Wanstrath. Handlebars.js and Mustache are both logicless templating languages that keep the view and the code separated like we all know they should be.

Mustache

Mustache

Mustache is a logic-less template syntax. It can be used for HTML, config files, source code - anything. It works by expanding tags in a template using values provided in a hash or object. We call it "logic-less" because there are no if statements, else clauses, or for loops. Instead there are only tags. Some tags are replaced with a value, some nothing, and others a series of values.

Slim Lang

Slim Lang

Slim is a template language whose goal is to reduce the view syntax to the essential parts without becoming cryptic. It started as an exercise to see how much could be removed from a standard html template (<, >, closing tags, etc...). As more people took an interest in Slim, the functionality grew and so did the flexibility of the syntax.

RactiveJS

RactiveJS

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.

EJS

EJS

It is a simple templating language that lets you generate HTML markup with plain JavaScript. No religiousness about how to organize things. No reinvention of iteration and control-flow. It's just plain JavaScript.

PrimeNg

PrimeNg

It has a rich collection of components that would satisfy most of the UI requirements of your application like datatable, dropdown, multiselect, notification messages, accordion, breadcrumbs and other input components. So there would be no need of adding different libraries for different UI requirements.

Structor

Structor

Structor is a visual development environment for node.js Web applications with React UI. The essential part of the builder is a project boilerplate. The boilerplate is a prepacked source code of node.js application in which metainfo included.

Jinja

Jinja

It is a full featured template engine for Python. It has full unicode support, an optional integrated sandboxed execution environment, widely used and BSD licensed.

Twig

Twig

It is a modern template engine for PHP. It is flexible, fast, and secure. Its syntax originates from Jinja and Django templates.

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