Client-side templating frameworks to streamline using jQuery with REST/JSON

Since posting this question, I have found many other templating options. I've listed many of them below. However, there was recently a jQuery templates proposal that may be the most promising solution yet. There is also a discussion about it on the jquery site. Here is the project location:

  • https://github.com/nje/jquery/wiki/jquery-templates-proposal

Other solutions I've come across include (in no particular order):

  • http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/posts/509108.aspx
  • http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-micro-templating/
  • http://beebole.com/pure/
  • http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/project/jTemplates
  • http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/project/advancedmerge
  • http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/project/tempest
  • http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/project/jBind
  • http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/project/cliche
  • http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/project/appendDom
  • http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/project/openSocial-jquery-templates
  • http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/project/Orange-J
  • http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/project/fromTemplate-microtemplate
  • http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/project/resiglet
  • http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/project/databind
  • http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/project/jsont
  • http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/project/domplate
  • http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/project/noTemplate
  • http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/project/jQueryHtmlTemplates
  • http://github.com/trix/nano
  • http://aefxx.com/jquery-plugins/jqote/
  • http://ajaxian.com/archives/chainjs-jquery-data-binding-service
  • http://ajaxpatterns.org/Browser-Side_Templating
  • http://beebole.com/pure/
  • http://code.google.com/p/google-jstemplate/
  • http://code.google.com/p/trimpath/wiki/JavaScriptTemplates
  • http://embeddedjs.com/
  • Javascript template system - PURE, EJS, jquery plugin?
  • jQuery templating engines
  • http://goessner.net/articles/jsont/

Sounds like you want sammy.js

http://code.quirkey.com/sammy/

The tutorials there demo use of the template engine