JavaScript template language shootoff (v205)

Revision 205 of this benchmark created by Dave Tonge on

Description

A brief comparison of some JavaScript templating engines on a short template: 6 header tags, and 10 list items.

Note: When adding a new test, please ensure that your test returns the same HTML string (or equivalent DOM fragment) as the others.

Preparation HTML

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<script src="http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/underscore.js"></script>

<script src="http://github.com/janl/mustache.js/raw/master/mustache.js"></script>

<script src="http://github.com/pvande/Milk/raw/gh-pages/milk.js"></script>

<script src="http://terrainformatica.com/kite/kite.js"></script>

<script src="http://github.com/downloads/wycats/handlebars.js/handlebars-0.9.0.pre.4.js"></script>

<script src="http://gist.github.com/raw/550881/29bb186167079c0b33ab6e9d50d779f37860cfa4/micro.js"></script>

<script src="http://gist.github.com/raw/860205/8444586913ab249c619671b8f5054fc92dddf643/micro2.js"></script>

<script src="http://gist.github.com/raw/860240/cd98cacbdeee7eb2cfb2ca3ca76638dae2a5b1af/micro3.js"></script>

<script src="http://github.com/creationix/haml-js/raw/master/lib/haml.js"></script>

<script src="http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/extras/coffee-script.js"></script>
<script src="http://sstephenson.github.com/eco/dist/eco.js"></script>

<script src="http://github.com/jquery/jquery-tmpl/raw/master/jquery.tmpl.min.js"></script>

<script src="http://github.com/olado/doT/raw/master/doT.js"></script>

<script src="http://github.com/olado/doT/raw/master/doU.js"></script>

<script src="http://github.com/aefxx/jQote2/raw/69b2053a13f5f180e696de9b3dba856a3c00678c/jquery.jqote2.js"></script>

<script src="http://embeddedjavascript.googlecode.com/files/ejs_0.9_alpha_1_production.js"></script>

<script src="http://github.com/pure/pure/raw/master/libs/pure.js"></script>
<div class="pure">
        <h1 class='header'></h1>
        <h2 class='header2'></h2>
        <h3 class='header3'></h3>
        <h4 class='header4'></h4>
        <h5 class='header5'></h5>
        <h6 class='header6'></h6>
        <ul class='list'>
                <li class='item'></li>
        </ul>
</div>

<script src="http://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js/raw/master/json2.js"></script>

<script src="http://akdubya.github.com/dustjs/dist/dust-full-0.3.0.min.js"></script>


<script src="https://github.com/premasagar/tim/raw/master/tim.js"></script>

<script src="https://gist.github.com/raw/875670/d52752ead19a4eebc7237602438ae08a2541a5b5/tim-lite-cached-min.js"></script>
<script>
  window.mustacheTemplate = "<div><h1 class='header'>{{header}}</h1><h2 class='header2'>{{header2}}</h2><h3 class='header3'>{{header3}}</h3><h4 class='header4'>{{header4}}</h4><h5 class='header5'>{{header5}}</h5><h6 class='header6'>{{header6}}</h6><ul class='list'>{{#list}}<li class='item'>{{.}}</li>{{/list}}</ul></div>";
  
  // note: exactly the same as the mustacheTemplate above.
  window.kiteTemplate = "<div><h1 class='header'>{{header}}</h1><h2 class='header2'>{{header2}}</h2><h3 class='header3'>{{header3}}</h3><h4 class='header4'>{{header4}}</h4><h5 class='header5'>{{header5}}</h5><h6 class='header6'>{{header6}}</h6><ul class='list'>{{#list}}<li class='item'>{{.}}</li>{{/list}}</ul></div>";
  window.kiteCompiledTemplate = kite(kiteTemplate); // seems like others are testing compiled versions.
  window.handlebarsTemplate = Handlebars.compile("<div><h1 class='header'>{{header}}</h1><h2 class='header2'>{{header2}}</h2><h3 class='header3'>{{header3}}</h3><h4 class='header4'>{{header4}}</h4><h5 class='header5'>{{header5}}</h5><h6 class='header6'>{{header6}}</h6><ul class='list'>{{#each list}}<li class='item'>{{this}}</li>{{/each}}</ul></div>");
  
  window.micro = "<div><h1 class='header'><%= header %></h1><h2 class='header2'><%= header2 %></h2><h3 class='header3'><%= header3 %></h3><h4 class='header4'><%= header4 %></h4><h5 class='header5'><%= header5 %></h5><h6 class='header6'><%= header6 %></h6><ul class='list'><% for (var i = 0, l = list.length; i < l; i++) { %><li class='item'><%= list[i] %></li><% } %></ul></div>";
  
  window.micro2 = "<div><h1 class='header'><%= data.header %></h1><h2 class='header2'><%= data.header2 %></h2><h3 class='header3'><%= data.header3 %></h3><h4 class='header4'><%= data.header4 %></h4><h5 class='header5'><%= data.header5 %></h5><h6 class='header6'><%= data.header6 %></h6><ul class='list'><% for (var i = 0, l = data.list.length; i < l; i++) { %><li class='item'><%= data.list[i] %></li><% } %></ul></div>";
  
  
  window.underscoreTemplate = _.template(micro);
  
  window.resigTemplate = tmpl(micro);
  
  window.resigTemplate2 = tmpl2(micro2);
  
  window.resigTemplate3 = tmpl3(micro2);
  
  window.sharedVariables = {
   header: "Header",
   header2: "Header2",
   header3: "Header3",
   header4: "Header4",
   header5: "Header5",
   header6: "Header6",
   list: ['1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '10']
  };
  
  window.jadeTemplate = "div\n  h1.header!= header\n  h2.header2!= header2\n  h3.header3!= header3\n  h4.header4!= header4\n  h5.header5!= header5\n  h6.header6!= header6\n  ul.list\n    - each item in list\n      li.item!= item";
  
  window.hamlTemplate = Haml("%div\n  %h1.header= header\n  %h2.header2= header2\n  %h3.header3= header3\n  %h4.header4= header4\n  %h5.header5= header5\n  %h6.header6= header6\n  %ul.list\n    :each item in list\n      %li.item= item");
  
  window.ecoTemplate = eco("<div><h1 class='header'><%- @header %></h1><h2 class='header2'><%- @header2 %></h2><h3 class='header3'><%- @header3 %></h3><h4 class='header4'><%- @header4 %></h4><h5 class='header5'><%- @header5 %></h5><h6 class='header6'><%- @header6 %></h6><ul class='list'><% for item in @list: %><li class='item'><%- item %></li><% end %></ul></div>");
  
  window.jQueryTemplate = $.template(null, "<div><h1 class='header'>{{html header}}</h1><h2 class='header2'>{{html header2}}</h2><h3 class='header3'>{{html header3}}</h3><h4 class='header4'>{{html header4}}</h4><h5 class='header5'>{{html header5}}</h5><h6 class='header6'>{{html header6}}</h6><ul class='list'>{{each list}}<li class='item'>{{html $value}}</li>{{/each}}</ul></div>");
  
  window.doTtemplate = doT.template("<div><h1 class='header'>{{= it.header }}</h1><h2 class='header2'>{{= it.header2 }}</h2><h3 class='header3'>{{= it.header3 }}</h3><h4 class='header4'>{{= it.header4 }}</h4><h5 class='header5'>{{= it.header5 }}</h5><h6 class='header6'>{{= it.header6 }}</h6><ul class='list'>{{ for (var i = 0, l = it.list.length; i < l; i++) { }}<li class='item'>{{= it.list[i] }}</li>{{ } }}</ul></div>");
  
  window.doUtemplate = doU.template("<div><h1 class='header'>{{= it.header }}</h1><h2 class='header2'>{{= it.header2 }}</h2><h3 class='header3'>{{= it.header3 }}</h3><h4 class='header4'>{{= it.header4 }}</h4><h5 class='header5'>{{= it.header5 }}</h5><h6 class='header6'>{{= it.header6 }}</h6><ul class='list'>{{ for (var i = 0, l = it.list.length; i < l; i++) { }}<li class='item'>{{= it.list[i] }}</li>{{ } }}</ul></div>");
  
  window.jqote_tmpl = "<div><h1 class='header'><%= this.header %></h1><h2 class='header2'><%= this.header2 %></h2><h3 class='header3'><%= this.header3 %></h3><h4 class='header4'><%= this.header4 %></h4><h5 class='header5'><%= this.header5 %></h5><h6 class='header6'><%= this.header6 %></h6><ul class='list'><% for (var n = 0, l = this.list.length; n < l; n++) { %><li class='item'><%= this.list[n] %></li><% } %></ul></div>";
  
  window.jqote2 = $.jqotec(jqote_tmpl);
  
  window.ejs = new EJS({
   text: micro
  });
  
  window.baseHtml = "<div><h1 class='header'></h1><h2 class='header2'></h2><h3 class='header3'></h3><h4 class='header4'></h4><h5 class='header5'></h5><h6 class='header6'></h6><ul class='list'><li class='item'></li></ul></div>";
  
  window.pureTemplate = $p('div.pure').compile({
   h1: 'header',
   h2: 'header2',
   h3: 'header3',
   h4: 'header4',
   h5: 'header5',
   h6: 'header6',
   li: {
    'itm<-list': {
     '.': 'itm'
    }
   }
  });
  
  window.hamlTemplate_2 = "%div\n  %h1.header= header\n  %h2.header2= header2\n  %h3.header3= header3\n  %h4.header4= header4\n  %h5.header5= header5\n  %h6.header6= header6\n  %ul.list\n    :each item in list\n      %li.item= item";
  window.hamlCompiled = Haml.compile(hamlTemplate_2);
  window.hamlOptimized = Haml.optimize(hamlCompiled);
  
  dust.loadSource(dust.compile("<div><h1 class='header'>{header}</h1><h2 class='header2'>{header2}</h2><h3 class='header3'>{header3}</h3><h4 class='header4'>{header4}</h4><h5 class='header5'>{header5}</h5><h6 class='header6'>{header6}</h6><ul class='list'>{#list}<li class='item'>{.}</li>{/list}</ul></div>", "dustTemplate"));
  
  window.timTemplate = "<div><h1 class='header'>{{header}}</h1><h2 class='header2'>{{header2}}</h2><h3 class='header3'>{{header3}}</h3><h4 class='header4'>{{header4}}</h4><h5 class='header5'>{{header5}}</h5><h6 class='header6'>{{header6}}</h6><ul class='list'>{{list}}<li class='item'>{{_content}}</li>{{/list}}</ul></div>";
  
  window.timLiteTemplate = "<div><h1 class='header'>{{header}}</h1><h2 class='header2'>{{header2}}</h2><h3 class='header3'>{{header3}}</h3><h4 class='header4'>{{header4}}</h4><h5 class='header5'>{{header5}}</h5><h6 class='header6'>{{header6}}</h6><ul class='list'><li class='item'>{{list.0}}</li><li class='item'>{{list.1}}</li><li class='item'>{{list.2}}</li><li class='item'>{{list.3}}</li><li class='item'>{{list.4}}</li><li class='item'>{{list.5}}</li><li class='item'>{{list.6}}</li><li class='item'>{{list.7}}</li><li class='item'>{{list.8}}</li><li class='item'>{{list.9}}</li></ul></div>";
  
  window.simpleCoffeeTemplates = {
    example: function(a) {
      return "<div>      <h1 class='header'>" + a.header + "</h1>      <h2 class='header2'>" + a.header2 + "</h2>      <h3 class='header3'>" + a.header3 + "</h3>      <h4 class='header4'>" + a.header4 + "</h4>      <h5 class='header5'>" + a.header5 + "</h5>      <h6 class='header6'>" + a.header6 + "</h6>      <ul>        " + (simpleCoffeeTemplates.loop(a.list, 'li')) + "      </ul>      </div>";
    },
    li: function(a) {
      return "<li class='item'>" + a + "</li>";
    },
    loop: function(data, template) {
      var a, b, tmpl;
      tmpl = simpleCoffeeTemplates[template];
      if (toString.call(data) === '[object Array]') {
        return ((function() {
          var _i, _len, _results;
          _results = [];
          for (_i = 0, _len = data.length; _i < _len; _i++) {
            a = data[_i];
            _results.push(tmpl(a));
          }
          return _results;
        })()).join('');
      } else if (data === Object(data)) {
        return ((function() {
          var _results;
          _results = [];
          for (b in data) {
            a = data[b];
            _results.push(tmpl(a));
          }
          return _results;
        })()).join('');
      }
    }
  };
  
  window.simpleCoffeeTemplates2 = {
    example: function(a) {
      return "<div>      <h1 class='header'>" + a.header + "</h1>      <h2 class='header2'>" + a.header2 + "</h2>      <h3 class='header3'>" + a.header3 + "</h3>      <h4 class='header4'>" + a.header4 + "</h4>      <h5 class='header5'>" + a.header5 + "</h5>      <h6 class='header6'>" + a.header6 + "</h6>      <ul>        " + (simpleCoffeeTemplates2.loop(a.list, 'li')) + "      </ul>      </div>";
    },
    li: function(a) {
      return "<li class='item'>" + a + "</li>";
    },
    loop: function(data, template, type) {
      var a;
      return ((function() {
        var _i, _len, _results;
        _results = [];
        for (_i = 0, _len = data.length; _i < _len; _i++) {
          a = data[_i];
          _results.push(simpleCoffeeTemplates2[template](a));
        }
        return _results;
      })()).join('');
    }
  };
  
  window.simpleCoffeeTemplates3 = {
    example: function(a) {
      return "<div>      <h1 class='header'>" + a.header + "</h1>      <h2 class='header2'>" + a.header2 + "</h2>      <h3 class='header3'>" + a.header3 + "</h3>      <h4 class='header4'>" + a.header4 + "</h4>      <h5 class='header5'>" + a.header5 + "</h5>      <h6 class='header6'>" + a.header6 + "</h6>      <ul>        " + (simpleCoffeeTemplates3.loop(a.list, 'li')) + "      </ul>      </div>";
    },
    li: function(a) {
      return "<li class='item'>" + a + "</li>";
    },
    loop: function(data, template) {
      var a, out, _i, _len;
      out = "";
      for (_i = 0, _len = data.length; _i < _len; _i++) {
        a = data[_i];
        out += simpleCoffeeTemplates3[template](a);
      }
      return out;
    }
  };
</script>

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Testing in
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Mustache.js Template
Mustache.to_html(mustacheTemplate, sharedVariables);
ready
Resig Micro-Templating.
resigTemplate(sharedVariables);
ready
Creationix's Haml-js Template
hamlTemplate(sharedVariables);
ready
Jade Template
jade.render(jadeTemplate, {
 locals: sharedVariables,
 filename: 'test.js',
 cache: true
});
ready
Underscore.js Template
underscoreTemplate(sharedVariables);
ready
Eco Template
ecoTemplate(sharedVariables);
ready
jQuery Templates
jQueryTemplate($, {
 data: sharedVariables
}).join("");
ready
Handlebars.js
handlebarsTemplate(sharedVariables);
ready
doT.js
doTtemplate(sharedVariables);
ready
doU.js
doUtemplate(sharedVariables);
ready
jQote2 direct
jqote2.call(sharedVariables, 0, 0, [sharedVariables], jqote2);
ready
simple coffee1
simpleCoffeeTemplates.example(sharedVariables);
ready
simple coffee 2
simpleCoffeeTemplates2.example(sharedVariables);
ready
simple coffee 3
simpleCoffeeTemplates3.example(sharedVariables);
ready
dust
var done = false;

while (!done) {
 // Need better way to benchmark asynchronous functions
 dust.render("dustTemplate", sharedVariables, function() {
  done = true;
 });
}
ready
KiTE
kiteCompiledTemplate(sharedVariables);
ready
Resig Micro-Templating without with(obj)
resigTemplate2(sharedVariables);
ready
Resig Micro-Templating with += instead of push and join
resigTemplate3(sharedVariables);
ready
Milk
Milk.render(mustacheTemplate, sharedVariables);
ready
Tim
tim(timTemplate, sharedVariables);
ready
Tim (lite, cached)
timLiteCached(timLiteTemplate, sharedVariables);
ready

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