Underscore Templates Review

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Review of Underscore Templates powered by the Slant community.

Underscore.js template function for micro templating.

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Pros

Pro
For micro templating

Due to Underscore's optimized performance and ease-of-use it can be deemed as most fit for use in small sections of your code, where you just want a quick and simple template to render your content.

Pro
Pre-compilation

Underscore allows you to compile your template once before data is inserted to it.

Cons

Con
Not a true templating engine

template in underscore is simply a function which compiles a piece of template into HTML. It's useful for rendering HTML from JSON and it's not very useful when building complex frontend templates.