Mustache vs Hogan.js vs Handlebars.js (v15)

Revision 15 of this benchmark created on

Preparation HTML

<div id='content'></div>

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/mustache.js/0.7.2/mustache.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/hogan.js/2.0.0/hogan.js"></script>
<script src="http://cloud.github.com/downloads/wycats/handlebars.js/handlebars-1.0.rc.1.js"></script>

Setup

var context = {
      messages: [
        { greeting: "Hello", subject: "World" },
        { greeting: "What's up", subject: "Dan" },
        { greeting: "How's it going", subject: "Ben?" },
        { greeting: "Hello", subject: "World" },
        { greeting: "What's up", subject: "Dan" },
        { greeting: "How's it going", subject: "Ben?" },
        { greeting: "Hello", subject: "World" },
        { greeting: "What's up", subject: "Dan" },
        { greeting: "How's it going", subject: "Ben?" },
        { greeting: "Hello", subject: "World" }
      ],
    
      "shouldRenderApple" : function() {
        return true;
      },
    
      "citation": function() {
        return {
          authorName: "Dan Gilbert",
          year: "2011"
        };
      }
    };

    var contextHandlebars = {
      messages: [
        { greeting: "Hello", subject: "World" },
        { greeting: "What's up", subject: "Dan" },
        { greeting: "How's it going", subject: "Ben?" },
        { greeting: "Hello", subject: "World" },
        { greeting: "What's up", subject: "Dan" },
        { greeting: "How's it going", subject: "Ben?" },
        { greeting: "Hello", subject: "World" },
        { greeting: "What's up", subject: "Dan" },
        { greeting: "How's it going", subject: "Ben?" },
        { greeting: "Hello", subject: "World" }
      ]
    };

Handlebars.registerHelper('citation', function() {
  return {
          authorName: "Dan Gilbert",
          year: "2011"
        };
}); 

Handlebars.registerHelper('shouldRenderApple', function() {
  return true;
});
    
    var template1 = "{{# messages }}<li>{{ greeting }}, {{ subject }} {{# shouldRenderApple }} APPLE {{/ shouldRenderApple }}</li>{{/ messages }}{{# citation }}{{ authorName }}, {{ year }}{{/ citation }}";
    
    var template2 = "{{# messages }}<li>{{ greeting }}, {{ subject }} {{# shouldRenderApple }} APPLE {{/ shouldRenderApple }}</li>{{/ messages }}{{# citation }}{{ authorName }}, {{ year }}{{/ citation }}";

    var templateHb1 = "{{# messages }}<li>{{ greeting }}, {{ subject }} {{#shouldRenderApple}} APPLE {{/shouldRenderApple}}</li>{{/ messages }}{{# citation }}{{ authorName }}, {{ year }}{{/ citation }}";
    
    var templateHb2 = "{{# messages }}<li>{{ greeting }}, {{ subject }} {{#shouldRenderApple}} APPLE {{/shouldRenderApple}}</li>{{/ messages }}{{# citation }}{{ authorName }}, {{ year }}{{/ citation }}";

    var compiledHogan = Hogan.compile(template2);
    var compiledHandlebars = Handlebars.compile(templateHb2);

Test runner

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Testing in
TestOps/sec
Mustache 1
Mustache.to_html(template1, context);
ready
Mustache 2
Mustache.to_html(template2, context);
ready
Handlebars.js (uncompiled)
var compiledTemplate = Handlebars.compile(templateHb1);
compiledTemplate(contextHandlebars);
ready
Handlebars.js (compiled)
compiledHandlebars(contextHandlebars);
ready
Hogan.js (uncompiled)
var compiledTemplate = Hogan.compile(template1);
compiledTemplate.render(context);
ready
Hogan.js (compiled)
compiledHogan.render(context);
ready

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