Closure Templates - Template language

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Closure Templates is an open source template language created in 2009.

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15Years Old

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Download source code:

git clone https://github.com/google/closure-templates

Source Code

A client- and server-side templating system that helps you dynamically build reusable HTML and UI elements

Tags: template language
Closure Templates is developed on GitHub and has 635 stars
There are at least 424,389 Closure Templates repos on GitHub
Early development of Closure Templates happened in Google
Closure Templates is written in Java, starlark, Markdown, HTML, JavaScript, Protocol Buffers, Python, XML, TypeScript, JSON, Bazel, YAML
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 18 users using Closure Templates in 25 repos on GitHub
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Closure Templates

Example from the web:

/**
 * Says hello to the world.
 */
{template .helloWorld}
  Hello world!
{/template}

Example from Linguist:

{namespace Exmaple}

/**
 * Example
 */
{template .foo}
  {@param count: string}
  {@param? name: int}

  {if isNonnull($name)}
    <h1>{$name}</h1>
  {/if}

  <div class="content">
    {switch count}
      {case 0}
        {call Empty.view}
          {param count: $count /}
        {/call}
      {default}
        <h2>Wow, so many!</h2>
    {/switch}
  </div>
{/template}

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Comments	✓	/* A comment */
MultiLine Comments	✓	/* A comment */	/* */
Semantic Indentation	X