Dynamic Templates

Templating Specs
UI things for doing things such as

• add metadata to different parts of a project
• incorporating project structures in to a template

Should be

• logic-full
• well-maintained/active community
• easy to learn
• relatively lightweight
• customizable/easy to extend

Chosen Framework
Knockout.js highly recommended, haven't finished reviewing all options though

Reviewed frameworks

• framework name
  • pros
  • cons
  • syntax/formatting practices

https://github.com/visionmedia/jade

• jade
  • pros
    • good documentation
    • good community, maybe not as active as knockout.js?
    • mixins
    • logic
  • cons
  • syntax/formatting practices
• knockout.js
  • pros
    • uses logic
    • really well documented, seems intuitive and customizable
    • active community: multiple posts per day on forums
  • cons
    • nothing, this is the platonic ideal of javascript frameworks
• javascriptmvc
  • pros
    • good documentation
  • cons
  • syntax/formatting practices
• embeddedjs
  • pros
    • nice set of view helpers to build on
  • cons
    • sparse documentation
    • community not very active: only 27 issues in tracker, no mailing list activity since 2012 (and most in 2009/2010)
  • syntax
    • <% %>, <%= %>
    • new EJS({url:'/todo.ejs'}).update('todo','/todo.json')

scratchpad

organize these

• serenade js
• http://embeddedjs.com/
• http://javascriptmvc.com/docs.html#!jQuery.View
• http://canjs.us/#can_ejs
• https://github.com/visionmedia/jade
• http://jacwright.com/438/javascript-data-binding/
• Knockout JS - just the templating/data-binding?
• Angular - just the templating/data-binding?
• Underscore templating + some sort of data-binding?

Other options:

http://engineering.linkedin.com/frontend/client-side-templating-throwdown-mustache-handlebars-dustjs-and-more