dotjs vs doT

dotjs

~/.js (by defunkt)

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doT

The fastest + concise javascript template engine for nodejs and browsers. Partials, custom delimiters and more. (by olado)

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dotjs		doT
	Project
1	Mentions	1
3,160	Stars	4,988
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
almost 6 years ago	Latest Commit	7 months ago
Ruby	Language	JavaScript
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

dotjs

Posts with mentions or reviews of dotjs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-23.

Site.js: Small Web construction set
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jan 2021

following the dynamic part of this, it looks like they recommend DotJS.
https://sitejs.org/#dynamic-sites
I am not too familiar with DotJS, but it looks like its depreciated/unmaintained for years.
https://github.com/defunkt/dotjs

doT

Posts with mentions or reviews of doT. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-23.

Site.js: Small Web construction set
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jan 2021

https://github.com/olado/doT is what they are talking about I think.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dotjs and doT you can also consider the following projects:

deno-htmlsync - Synchronize the HTML header and footer to all your HTML files.

handlebars.js - Minimal templating on steroids.

site.js - [Moved to Codeberg] Develop, test, and deploy your secure static or dynamic personal web site with zero configuration.

EJS - Embedded JavaScript templates -- http://ejs.co

mustache.js - Minimal templating with {{mustaches}} in JavaScript

marko - A declarative, HTML-based language that makes building web apps fun

Jade - Pug – robust, elegant, feature rich template engine for Node.js

squirrelly - Semi-embedded JS template engine that supports helpers, filters, partials, and template inheritance. 4KB minzipped, written in TypeScript ⛺

PowJS

eta (η) - Embedded JS template engine for Node, Deno, and the browser. Lighweight, fast, and pluggable. Written in TypeScript

swig

Inky - Convert a simple HTML syntax into tables compatible with Foundation for Emails.