JavaScript template language shootoff (v941)

Revision 941 of this benchmark created by Lance Taylor 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:

Preparation HTML

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/ext-core/3/ext-core.js"></script>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/underscore.js"></script>

<!--NOTE: Need to load from CDNJS since GitHub uses text/plain MIME type, which is blocked in IE9-->
<!--<script src="http://github.com/janl/mustache.js/raw/master/mustache.js"></script>-->
<script src="http://ajax.cdnjs.com/ajax/libs/mustache.js/0.3.0/mustache.min.js"></script>

<script src="https://github.com/downloads/wycats/handlebars.js/handlebars.1.0.0.beta.3.js"></script>

<script src="http://cdn.kendostatic.com/2011.2.804/js/kendo.all.min.js"></script>

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

<!--NOTE: Need to load from MSFT CDN since GitHub uses text/plain MIME type, which is blocked in IE9-->
<!--<script src="http://github.com/jquery/jquery-tmpl/raw/master/jquery.tmpl.min.js"></script>-->
<script src="http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery.templates/beta1/jquery.tmpl.min.js"></script>

<script src="http://qatrix.com/js/qatrix-1.1.min.js"></script>

<script src="http://www.lance-taylor.com/MyTemplate.js"></script>

<script>
var $ = jQuery.noConflict();
  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.jQueryTemplate = "<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.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.kendouiTemplate = "<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 = "<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.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>";
  
  //Resig Template Function (modified to support ')
  window.tmpl = function(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>";

window.qatrixTemplate = "<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'>{{this}}</li>{{/list}}</ul></div>";

 /**
    * Template generator compiler.
    * @author stefano.azzolini@caffeinalab.com
    * @url http://caffeinalab.com/
    */
    
    window.template_compiler = function(template) {
      return new Function('o',
        'o=o||{};return "' + template
        .replace(/"/g, '\\"')
        .split('{')
        .join('"+(o.')
        .split('}')
        .join('||"")+"') + '";'
      );
    }

window.fastTemplate = "<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'></ul></div>";

window.myTemplate = template = '<div><h1 class="header" data-dom-text="header"></h1><h2 class="header2" data-dom-text="header2"></h2><h3 class="header3" data-dom-text="header3"></h3><h4 class="header4" data-dom-text="header4"></h4><h5 class="header5" data-dom-text="header5"></h5><h6 class="header6" data-dom-text="header6"></h6><ul class="list"><li class="item" data-dom-repeat="list" data-dom-text="$val"></li></ul></div>';

</script>

Test runner

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Testing in
TestOps/sec
Mustache
Mustache.to_html(mustacheTemplate, sharedVariables);
ready
jQuery.template
window.jQueryTemplate = $.template(null, window.jQueryTemplate);
jQueryTemplate($, {
  data: sharedVariables
}).join("");

 
ready
Kendo UI
window.kendouiTemplate = kendo.template(window.kendouiTemplate, {useWithBlock:true});
kendouiTemplate(sharedVariables);
ready
Handlebars
window.handlebarsTemplate = Handlebars.compile(window.handlebarsTemplate);
handlebarsTemplate(sharedVariables);
ready
Underscore
window.underscoreTemplate = _.template(window.underscoreTemplate);
underscoreTemplate(sharedVariables);
ready
Resig micro-templating (mod)
window.resig = tmpl(window.resig);
resig(sharedVariables)
ready
Qatrix
window.qatrixTemplate = Qatrix.$template(window.qatrixTemplate);
qatrixTemplate(sharedVariables);
ready
fastTemplate
window.fastTemplate = template_compiler(window.fastTemplate);
fastTemplate(sharedVariables);
ready
MyTemplate
MyTemplate.buildTemplate(myTemplate, sharedVariables);
ready

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