Templating in Python¶
Mainstream Python¶
- Django templates
- Jinja2
- ZPT / Chameleon
- Mako
Chameleon = faster ZPT by compiling to python bytecode.
(All are supported by PyCharm OOTB, except Mako).
Exotic Python¶
- Pug / PyJade
- Dust / Ashes (https://github.com/mahmoud/ashes)
- Genshi (https://genshi.edgewall.org/)
- Clearsilver (https://github.com/blong42/clearsilver/) (dead)
More + benchmarks: https://github.com/marrow/cinje/wiki/Benchmarks
Internal Python DSLs¶
Using context managers¶
- https://github.com/galvez/xmlwitch (dead)
- https://www.yattag.org/
- https://github.com/tlonny/pdoo
- https://github.com/Knio/dominate
- https://github.com/Parnassius/domify
- https://github.com/bitplorer/uidom
Using mutable objects¶
Using extended syntax (a la JSX)¶
- https://github.com/michaeljones/packed
- https://github.com/gvanrossum/pyxl3 (dead)
- https://github.com/pyxl4/pyxl4 (dead)
- https://github.com/twidi/mixt/ (semi-dead)
Using functions¶
- https://github.com/byteface/domonic
- https://github.com/byteface/htmlx (simpler fork)
- https://pypi.org/project/hyperpython/
- https://pypi.org/project/PyHTML/
- https://github.com/jviide/htm.py (see also: https://viewdom.readthedocs.io/)
- https://github.com/pcarbonn/fast_html
- https://github.com/MohammadrezaAmani/INUI
- https://github.com/scrussell24/hype-html
- https://github.com/Hrabal/TemPy
- https://github.com/tvst/htbuilder
- https://github.com/mosquito/tagz
Multi-paradigm¶
More¶
Not Python¶
ZPT-likes¶
- Thymeleaf: Similar to ZPT. Java only. https://www.thymeleaf.org Very complete. Not sure how popular.
- https://davidcana.github.io/ZPT-JS/
Others¶
- Armin is working on a port of Jinja to Rust (-> compilation to WASM)
- https://docs.rs/minijinja/latest/minijinja/
- There is a Python package for it
- Vue templates
- Nuejs templates: https://nuejs.org/docs/reference/template-syntax.html
See also¶
#django
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