JavaScript template language shootoff (v724)

Revision 724 of this benchmark created 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://gist.github.com/raw/550881/29bb186167079c0b33ab6e9d50d779f37860cfa4/micro.js"></script>
<script src="http://gist.github.com/raw/860240/cd98cacbdeee7eb2cfb2ca3ca76638dae2a5b1af/micro3.js"></script>
<script src="https://github.com/olado/doT/raw/master/doU.js"></script>
<script src="http://ectjs.com/js/coffee-script.js"></script>
<script src="http://ectjs.com/js/ect.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://jsmart.googlecode.com/files/smart-2.9.min.js"></script>

  window.micro = "<div><ul class='list'><% for (var i = 0, l = list.length; i < l; i++) { %><li class='item'><%= list[i] %></li><% } %></ul></div>";

  window.micro2 = "<div><ul class='list'><% for (var i = 0, l = data.list.length; i < l; i++) { %><li class='item'><%= data.list[i] %></li><% } %></ul></div>";

  window.smartTemplate = "<div><ul class='list'>{foreach $list as $i}<li class='item'>{$i}</li>{/foreach}</ul></div>";

  window.doUtemplate = doU.template("<div><ul class='list'>{{ for (var i = 0, l = it.list.length; i < l; i++) { }}<li class='item'>{{= it.list[i] }}</li>{{ } }}</ul></div>");

  window.ectTemplate = "<div><ul><% for i in @list : %><li class='item'><%- i %></li><% end %></ul></div>";

  window.resigTemplate = tmpl(micro);
    
  window.resigTemplate3 = tmpl3(micro2);

  var root = {};
  window.ect = ECT({ cache : false, root : {
    'template': window.ectTemplate
  }});

  window.smart = new jSmart(window.smartTemplate);

  var list = [];
  for (var i = 0; i < 2000; i++) {
    list.push(i);
  }

  window.sharedVariables = {
   list: list
  };
</script>

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Testing in
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Resig Micro-Templating.
resigTemplate(sharedVariables);
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doU.js
doUtemplate(sharedVariables);
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Resig Micro-Templating with += instead of push and join
resigTemplate3(sharedVariables);
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ECT
ect.render('template', sharedVariables);
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jSmart
smart.fetch(sharedVariables);
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Revisions

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