Unable to pass jinja2 variables into javascript snippet

Try with quotes:

alert("{{name}}");

other than encapsulating the variable in a string, an alternate is jquery for profit:

its generally a bad idea to mix template language with javascript. An alternative would be to use html as a proxy - store the name in an element like so

<meta id="my-data" data-name="{{name}}" data-other="{{other}}">

then in the javascript do

var djangoData = $('#my-data').data();

this has advantage in:

• javascript no longer tied to the .html page
• jquery coerces data implicitly