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JavaScript templating refers to the client side data binding method implemented with the JavaScript language. This approach became popular thanks to JavaScript's increased use, its increase in client processing capabilities, and the trend to outsource computations to the client's web browser. Popular JavaScript templating libraries are AngularJS, Backbone.js, Ember.js, Handlebars.js, JSX (used by React), Vue.js and Mustache.js. A frequent practice is to use double curly brackets (i.e. {{key}}) to call values of the given key from data files, often JSON objects.

All examples use an external file presidents.json with following contents

{
  "presidents" : [
      { "name": "Washington", "firstname": "George", "born": "1732", "death": "1799" },
      { "name": "Lincoln", "firstname": "Abraham", "born": "1809", "death": "1865" }
  ]
}

All examples will produce the following HTML list:

• Washington (1732–1799)
• Lincoln (1809–1865)

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href=".../template.css"/>
<script src=".../jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src=".../jquery.template.min.js"></script> ➊

Our favorite presidents are:
<ul id="target">
    <li template="[presidents]" z-var="name ., born ., death .">
     ${name} (${born}-${death})
    </li>
</ul> ➋

<script>
    $.getJSON('.../presidents.json', function(data) {
        $('#target').template(data);
    });
</script> ➌

<script src=".../jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src=".../mustache.min.js"></script> ➊

Our favorite presidents are:
<ul id="target"></ul> ➋

<script id="president-template" type="text/template">
    {{#presidents}}
        <li>{{name}} ({{born}}-{{death}})</li>
    {{/presidents}}
</script> ➌

<script>
    $.getJSON('.../presidents.json', function(data) {
        var template = $('#president-template').html();
        var info = Mustache.to_html(template, data);
        $('#target').html(info);
    });
</script> ➍

Templating becomes useful when the information distributed may change, is too large to be maintained in various HTML pages by available human resources and not large enough to require heavier server-side templating.

• Comparison of web template engines

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