Top 19 C# Template engine Projects

scriban

1 17 3,319 6.2 C#

A fast, powerful, safe and lightweight scripting language and engine for .NET

Project mention: Generating C# code programmatically | dev.to | 2024-04-05

Recently, while creating some experimental C# source code generators (xafero/csharp-generators), I was just concatenating strings together. Like you do, you know, if things have to go very quickly. If you have a simple use case, use a formatted multi-line string or some template library like scriban. But I searched for a way to generate more and more complicated logic easily - like for example, adding raw SQL handler methods to my pre-generated DBSet-like classes for my ADO.NET experiment. You could now say: Use Roslyn and that's really fine if you look everything up in a website like SharpLab, which shows immediately the syntax tree of our C# code.
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RazorEngine

2 4 2,146 0.0 C#

Open source templating engine based on Microsoft's Razor parsing engine
RazorLight

3 11 1,550 2.6 C#

Template engine based on Microsoft's Razor parsing engine for .NET Core
fluid

4 3 1,490 8.5 C#

Fluid is an open-source .NET template engine based on the Liquid template language.

Project mention: Managing LLM prompts in DotNet with DotPrompt | dev.to | 2024-10-27

You might notice that the prompt has template instructions in there. To create this we used the Fluid library which is based on the Liquid template language from Shopify. It's got some great features in it and helps to make the prompt generation pretty powerful.
Handlebars.Net

5 11 1,295 5.1 C#

A real .NET Handlebars engine
craftsman

6 33 1,139 8.2 C#

A .NET scaffolding tool to help you stop worrying about boilerplate and focus on your business logic 🚀
SmartFormat.NET

7 0 1,134 7.8 C#

A lightweight text templating library written in C# which can be a drop-in replacement for string.Format
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DotLiquid

8 4 1,066 4.7 C#

.NET Port of Tobias Lütke's Liquid template language.
Nustache

9 0 596 0.0 C#

Logic-less templates for .NET
RazorEngineCore

10 2 591 7.2 C#

.NET6 Razor Template Engine

Project mention: Ask HN: Why do message queue-based architectures seem less popular now? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-06-18

> What is taking so long for compiling?
Razor templates: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/mvc/views/razo... with this outside of MVC https://github.com/adoconnection/razorenginecore
Though to be honest, if it wasn't template compilation, it might as well be slow DB queries, slow external service calls, or anything else that you wouldn't want to do in the lifecycle of the user's request, if it concerns something that should happen in the background, not even related to a particular stack.
Stubble

11 0 413 0.0 C#

Trimmed down {{mustache}} templates in .NET (by StubbleOrg)
Mustache Sharp

12 1 306 0.0 C#

An extension of the mustache text template engine for .NET.
CodegenCS

13 7 271 7.9 C#

C# Toolkit for Code Generation (T4 alternative!)
Westwind.Scripting

14 1 223 8.4 C#

Dynamically compile and execute C# Code and Expressions at runtime. Also includes a light weight script templating engine using Handlebar style C# syntax.
cottle

15 1 170 7.9 C#

Fast, light & extensible template engine for C#
jntemplate

16 0 146 5.1 C#

jntemplate is an fast and lightweight html templating engine for C# .NET.
Textrude

17 4 129 5.9 C#

Code generation from YAML/JSON/CSV models via SCRIBAN templates
MaltReport

18 0 126 0.0 C#

A WYSIWYG document template engine to generates .odt/.ods/docx/xlsx/doc/xls documents for .NET
morestachio

19 0 52 4.3 C#

Lightweight, powerful, flavorful, template engine.
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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Scriban lightweight scripting language for .NET

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Template engine projects in C#? This list will help you:

#	Project	Stars
1	scriban	3,319
2	RazorEngine	2,146
3	RazorLight	1,550
4	fluid	1,490
5	Handlebars.Net	1,295
6	craftsman	1,139
7	SmartFormat.NET	1,134
8	DotLiquid	1,066
9	Nustache	596
10	RazorEngineCore	591
11	Stubble	413
12	Mustache Sharp	306
13	CodegenCS	271
14	Westwind.Scripting	223
15	cottle	170
16	jntemplate	146
17	Textrude	129
18	MaltReport	126
19	morestachio	52