What is the difference between HandlebarsJS versus Twig Templating Engine?

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The main difference between HandlebarsJS versus Twig is that HandlebarsJS is client-side templating engine and Twig is server-side.

HandlebarsJS use Javascript versus Twig uses PHP.

HandlebarsJS is lighter weight versus Twig is more heavy-duty including advanced features such as cacheing and template inheritance.

Whether to use HandlebarsJS versus Twig all depends on your particular use case — mainly whether you need a client-side templating or server-side templating.

 

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