JavaScript template language shootoff (v711)

Revision 711 of this benchmark created on

Description

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

@695 - templates compilation moved into bench. suites; - appends indexer to prevent template caching;

@711 move to cdns

Preparation HTML

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

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/tweet/2.1/jquery.tweet.js"></script>

<script src="http://ajax.cdnjs.com/ajax/libs/mustache.js/0.3.0/mustache.min.js"></script>

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/handlebars.js/1.0.0-rc.3/handlebars.min.js"></script>


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

<script src="http://borismoore.github.com/jsrender/jsrender.js"></script>

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/highlight.js/7.3/highlight.min.js"></script>

<script src="http://tenbits.github.io/MaskJS/lib/mask.js"></script>
<script src="http://rawgithub.com/olado/doT/master/doT.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/underscore.js/1.4.4/underscore-min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/hogan.js/2.0.0/hogan.js"></script>


<!--External Template Definitions-->

<script>
  window.sharedVariables = {
   header: "Header",
   header2: "Header2",
   header3: "Header3",
   header4: "Header4",
   header5: "Header5",
   header6: "Header6",
   list: [1000000000, '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '10']
  };
  

  //JsRender compiled template (no encoding)
  window.jsRenderTemplate = "<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 list}}<li class='item'>{{:#data}}</li>{{/for}}</ul></div>";
  
  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>";
  
  window.handlebarsTemplate = "<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.underscoreTemplate = "<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.underscoreTemplateNoWith = "<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.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.doTtemplate = "<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>";

  
  //Resig Template Function (modified to support ')
  function tmpl(str) {
              var strFunc =
              "var p=[];" +
                          "with(obj){p.push('" +
  
              str.replace(/[\r\t\n]/g, " ")
                 .replace(/'(?=[^#]*#>)/g, "\t")
                 .split("'").join("\\'")
                 .split("\t").join("'")
                 .replace(/<#=(.+?)#>/g, "',$1,'")
                 .split("<#").join("');")
                 .split("#>").join("p.push('")
                 + "');}return p.join('');";
  
              return new Function("obj", strFunc);
          }
  
  window.resig = "<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>";
  
  //Resig modified template function (no "with" block)
  function tmpl2(str) {
              var strFunc =
              "var p=[];" +
                          "p.push('" +
  
              str.replace(/[\r\t\n]/g, " ")
                 .replace(/'(?=[^#]*#>)/g, "\t")
                 .split("'").join("\\'")
                 .split("\t").join("'")
                 .replace(/<#=(.+?)#>/g, "',$1,'")
                 .split("<#").join("');")
                 .split("#>").join("p.push('")
                 + "');return p.join('');";
  
              return new Function("data", strFunc);
          }
  
  window.resig2 = "<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.hoganTemplate = "<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.maskTemplate = "div { \
                                    h1.header > '~[header]'\
                                    h2.header2 > '~[header2]'\
                                    h3.header3 > '~[header3]'\
                                    h4.header4 > '~[header4]'\
                                    h5.header5 > '~[header5]'\
                                    h6.header6 > '~[header6]'\
                                    ul.list > % each='list' > li.item > '~[.]'\
                                }";

   window.indexer = {
       maskTemplate: 'div > "%%"',
       html: '<div>%%</div>'
   }
</script>

<div id="template"></div>

Setup

!function(){
    var container = document.querySelector('#template');
    
    window.prepair = function(templateName){
      var index = sharedVariables.list[0]++,
          footer = (indexer[templateName] || indexer.html).replace('%%', index)
    
      container.innerHTML = '';
      return window[templateName] + footer;
    }
    window.insertHTML = function(html){
      container.innerHTML = html;
    }
    window.insertDOM = function(dom){
      container.appendChild(dom);
    }
    }();

Test runner

Ready to run.

Testing in
TestOps/sec
doT.js
var str = prepair('doTtemplate'),
    fn = doT.template(str),
    html = fn(sharedVariables);

insertHTML(html);
 
ready
Handlebars.js
var str = prepair('handlebarsTemplate'),
    fn =  Handlebars.compile(str),
    html = fn(sharedVariables);

insertHTML(html);
ready
Underscore.js Template
var str = prepair('underscoreTemplate'),
    fn =  _.template(str),
    html = fn(sharedVariables);

insertHTML(html);
ready
Resig Micro Templates (No "with" block)
var str = prepair('resig2'),
    fn =  tmpl2(str),
    html = fn(sharedVariables);

insertHTML(html);
ready
Underscore.js Template (No "with")
var str = prepair('underscoreTemplateNoWith'),
    fn =  _.template(str, null, {variable: 'data'}),
    html = fn(sharedVariables);

insertHTML(html);
ready
Hogan.js
var str = prepair('hoganTemplate'),
    template = Hogan.compile(str),
    html = template.render(sharedVariables);

insertHTML(html);
ready
JsRender
var str = prepair('jsRenderTemplate'),
    template = $.templates(str),
    html = template.render(sharedVariables);

insertHTML(html);
ready
Mustache.js Template
var str = prepair('mustacheTemplate'),
    html = Mustache.to_html(str, sharedVariables);

insertHTML(html);
ready
MaskJS
var str = prepair('maskTemplate'),
    dom = mask.render(str, sharedVariables);

insertDOM(dom);
ready

Revisions

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