Why Squirrelly?

Features

Squirrelly has a number of features that set it apart from the competition:

• It's faster than most templating engines

• It supports user-defined helpers and native helpers

• It supports filters

• It supports partials

• It supports custom tags (delimeters)

• It's incredibly lightweight: in comparison: the full version only weighs about 2.5 KB gzipped, compared to Pug's 237 KB and Handlebars' 21.5 KB

• It works with other languages than HTML

• It's not white-space sensitive

Feature	Squirrelly	Handlebars	Pug	Marko	Dust	Swig
Auto Escape	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Whitespace sensitive	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Content Type	All	All	HTML	HTML	All	All