Why Pick Eta?
Features
Eta has a number of features that set it apart from the competition:
- Faster than most templating engines
- Supports partials
- Supports custom tags (delimeters)
- Incredibly lightweight: in comparison: the full version only weighs about 2 KB gzipped, compared to Pug's 237 KB and Handlebars' 21.5 KB
- Works with other languages than HTML
- Not white-space sensitive, but white-space-trimming configurable
- Syntax accessible to non-JavaScript programmers
- Supports comments and quotes containing ending delimeter (e.g.
<% /* commented out <% something %> */ %>)
| Feature | Eta | Handlebars | Pug | Marko | Dust | Swig |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auto Escape | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Whitespace sensitive | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Content Type | All | All | HTML | HTML | All | All |