Ongoing and incomplete review of javascript templating systems and frameworks.

Templating

Unobtrusive (HTML + JSON)

• weld
  • https://github.com/hij1nx/weld
  • tags: unobtrusive beta
• minimal.js
  • https://github.com/ruidlopes/minimal.js
  • tags: unobtrusive

‘Standard’ Templating Browser

• jquery.tmpl / jqtpl
  • https://github.com/jquery/jquery-tmpl / https://github.com/kof/node-jqtpl
  • tags: nodejs jquery browser beta
• tempo
  • http://twigkit.github.com/tempo/

Listings

• https://github.com/ry/node/wiki/modules#templating
  • Many of these work with browser

Testing

• nodeunit
• qunit
• jasmine
• sinon.js (mocking) - integrates with qunit well

Frameworks

Client-side

• backbone - used quite a bit
• knockout
• (big) sproutcore

Node

• express
  • tags: nodejs
• backbone now supported pretty well

Messaging and Job Queues

• rabbit.js
• resque in js - https://github.com/technoweenie/coffee-resque

HTML5

• modernizr
• html5boilerplate
  • http://html5boilerplate.com/

ORMs

• For mongo: http://mongoosejs.com/
• Backbone sort of includes one (though relationships are poorly handled at the moment)