toddams/RazorLight

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1661 stars · 271 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

RazorLight is a .NET template engine built on Microsoft's Razor parsing engine, letting you render Razor templates from strings, files, embedded resources, databases, or custom sources outside of ASP.NET MVC. It targets .NET Standard 2.0 and .NET Core with minimal dependencies and strong performance.

Use cases

• render razor templates outside asp.net mvc
• generate html emails from razor templates in .net
• compile and cache templates from strings or files
• build template engine alternative to RazorEngine on .NET Core
• render templates from database or embedded resources

When to choose

• you need Razor syntax templating in a non-MVC .NET Core or .NET Standard application
• you want to load templates from flexible sources like strings, files, or a database
• you need a maintained RazorEngine alternative for .NET Core

When to avoid

• you are building a full ASP.NET MVC app where built-in Razor view rendering suffices
• you need a general-purpose text templating language like Mustache or Handlebars
• you require very frequent new feature development, as the project is in maintenance mode

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

templating parser web-development developer-tools dotnet cross-platform razor template-engine netstandard csharp razorengine-alternative dotnet

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