What are template engines?

Introduction

Template engines are used when you want to rapidly build web applications that are split into different components. Templates also enable fast rendering of the server-side data that needs to be passed to the application.

For example, you might want to have components such as body, navigation, footer, dashboard, etc.

Popular template engines

Template engines are mostly used for server-side applications that are run on only one server and are not built as APIs.
The popular ones include Ejs, Jade, Pug, Mustache, HandlebarsJS, Jinja2Django Template Engine, and BladeLaravel Template Engine.

How template engines work

When you build a server-side application with a template engine, the template engine replaces the variables in a template file with actual values, and displays this value to the client. This makes it easier to quickly build our application.