# BorisMoore/jsrender

A lightweight, powerful and highly extensible templating engine. In the browser or on Node.js, with or without jQuery.

Repository: https://github.com/BorisMoore/jsrender
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/jsrender
Homepage: http://www.jsviews.com
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-06-25T23:30:03+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 80/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 89, release rhythm 58, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5612, "days_push": 69, "days_rel": 69, "gap_med": 399, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2671, forks 334 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:09.498276+00:00)

## What it is
JsRender is a lightweight, highly extensible JavaScript templating engine optimized for high-performance rendering of data-driven templates to strings, without DOM dependency. It works in the browser or on Node.js, with or without jQuery, and serves as the rendering layer for the JsViews data-binding/MVVM platform.

## Use cases
- render HTML from JSON data with client-side templates
- server-side templating in Express or Hapi Node.js apps
- replace jQuery Templates (jquery-tmpl) in a legacy app
- build interactive single-page apps with JsViews data binding
- precompile templates for fast rendering without jQuery
- bundle templates with Browserify or webpack

## When to choose
- you need a fast, dependency-free templating engine usable in browser and Node.js
- you are migrating from jquery-tmpl or jQuery Data Link
- you want extensible template syntax with custom tags and helpers
- you plan to use JsViews for data-bound MVVM UIs

## When to avoid
- your stack already uses a modern framework like React or Vue with its own rendering
- you need full HTML documents with layout inheritance rather than string templates
- you prefer server-side engines like EJS, Handlebars, or Pug with larger ecosystems

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: templating, frontend-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools
- platform: browser
- tags: jquery-plugin, template-engine, data-driven-rendering, express, hapi, browserify, mvvm, nodejs, javascript

## Member repositories
- BorisMoore/jsrender (main) score 80

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:09.498276+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:18:07.674719+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/BorisMoore/jsrender (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:09.498276+00:00, sha d7aedd3456df)
  - homepage: http://www.jsviews.com (fetched 2026-08-29T10:00:57.649410+00:00, sha 7ec6fdc499ad)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/jsrender (fetched 2026-08-29T10:00:57.651772+00:00, sha ad1239c12fc7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.