Comment by Vasan Subramanian on "Which one is the templating engine of your choice and why?"

I use Jade at the server-side, but not for generating dynamic HTMLs. I use it to generate static HTMLs (ie, they are generated at build-time as opposed to run-time). It works great for me:

I love the mixins, lots of verbose code gets compressed into one line (e.g., one line for a <select> with options inside). Makes my code very readable.
Since the code is more compact (no ending tags), I get to see a lot more of my code in one screen, and thus it's easier to make changes.

You should be able to achieve the same using Handlebars, but if you like your code to be compact, you should choose Jade.

I suggest you give both of them a try and pick whichever feels comfortable for you. Neither of them will take you more than a couple of hours to master.

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