Sunday, March 11, 2012 – South by Southwest Interactive, Austin, Texas
by Fritz Onion – Editor in Chief of Pluralsight

A Quick History of Client-Side Templating

Demo Link

JavaScript Micro-templating

In July 2008, Jon Resig posted a little, JavaScript micro-templating function.

jQuery Templates

In 2010, Boris Moore worked on a fork of John Resig‘s protoype, but in April 2011, jQuery Templates were put on hold.

Create the template inside of script tags and then inject it via the DOM wherever you want on the page.

JsRender and JsViews

by Boris Moore, carried ideas of jQuery Templates forward with the goal of separating into two components.

Read the rest of Client-Side Templating in jQuery at South by Southwest Interactive #SXSW2012

• JsRender – small fast pure string-based rendering with no DOM dependency
• JsViews – takes DOM content rendered by JsRender and activates it to provide equivalent DOM integration features to jQuery Templates and data linking