Why Pick Squirrelly?

Features

Squirrelly has a number of features that set it apart from the competition. It is:

• Faster than most templating engines
• Supports user-defined helpers and native helpers
• Supports filters
• Supports partials
• Supports custom tags (delimiters)
• Incredibly lightweight: in comparison: the full version only weighs about 4 KB gzipped, compared to Pug's 237 KB and Handlebars' 21.5 KB
• Works with other languages than HTML
• Not white-space sensitive, but white-space-trimming configurable
• Syntax accessible to non-JavaScript programmers
• Supports comments and quotes containing ending delimiter (e.g. {{! /* commented out {{something}} \*/}})

Feature	Squirrelly	Handlebars	Pug	Marko	Dust	Swig
Auto Escape	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Whitespace sensitive	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Content Type	All	All	HTML	HTML	All	All