Here’s the Deal
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When comparing swig vs FLAVE, the Slant community recommends swig for most people. In the question“What are the best JavaScript templating engines?” swig is ranked 14th while FLAVE is ranked 26th. The most important reason people chose swig is:
Available for node.js and major web browsers
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Pros
Pro Works both on the client and on the server
Available for node.js and major web browsers
Pro Does not hide HTML
Swig does not abstract HTML syntax from you (like e.g. Jade does) giving a certain filling of control over the markup.
Pro Syntax Highlighting
Syntax Highlighting extensions for Atom and VSCODE
Pro JavaScript allowed in views
Pro Helper functions
Can write pure JavaScript helper functions to include in the view file.
Pro Multiple Templates in a single file
Optionally encapsulate views within a class as well as have as many view as you want.
Pro Not white space sensitive
Cons
Con No updates for at least 6 months
Swig has not received any new commits since June 25 2015.
Con Limited support and testing
Con No data binding
Flave only generates HTML.