Templating language for both client-side and server-side rendering

Question

I\'m investigating JavaScript templates as a way to render our views. The goal is to be able to render client-side for users that have JavaScript enabled to to render the same t

Answer 1

I would opt for XSLT (http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/xsl_client.asp)

Answer 2

Use EJS. It's pretty much got all the features you ask.

It can be used with express.js out of the box and it works nicely on the client.

As a bonus I would use backbone.js to do MVC on the client & server.

Of course this does rely on node.js. I feel that using express, now & backbone allows you a lot of stable control with node.js. Not to mention that SSJS is simply awesome and that code re-use is fantastic.

Answer 3

We ended up picking dust.js. Check out Leaving JSPs in the dust and The client-side templating throwdown for more info.