Closure Templates

Closure Templates is a template language created in 2009.

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

Closure Templates is developed on GitHub and has 561 stars
There are at least 424,389 Closure Templates repos on GitHub
Closure Templates first developed in Google
file extensions for Closure Templates include soy
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 18 users using Closure Templates in 25 repos on GitHub
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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}

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

Closure Templates - Template language

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