EJS vs doT (v12)

Revision 12 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="https://rawgithub.com/olado/doT/master/doT.js"></script>
<script src="https://embeddedjavascript.googlecode.com/files/ejs_production.js"></script>

<script>
  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.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.ejs = new EJS({
   text: "<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.plainrender = function(sv) {
        var text = '';
        text = "<div><h1 class='header'>"+sv.header+"<h2 class='header2'>"+sv.header2+"</h2><h3 class='header3'>"+sv.header3
                +"</h3><h4 class='header4'>"+sv.header4+"</h4><h5 class='header5'>"+sv.header5+"</h5><h6 class='header6'>"+sv.header6
                +"</h6><ul class='list'>";
        for(var i=0;i<sv.list.length;i++)
        {
                text+="<li class='item'>"+sv.list[i]+"</li>";
        }
        text+="</ul></div>";
}
  
var ip = document.getElementById('insertionPoint'); 
</script>

<div id="insertionPoint"></div>

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Testing in
TestOps/sec
doT.js
var a = doTtemplate(sharedVariables);
ready
ejs
var a = ejs.render(sharedVariables);
ready
StringTest
var a = plainrender(sharedVariables);
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