Building data-driven web apps with Pyramid and SQLAlchemy Transcripts
Chapter: Chameleon templates
Lecture: Template language comparison
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When we created our project
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our website with Cookiecutter
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you saw it ask a question.
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What template language would you like to use?
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Would you like to use Jinja2, Chameleon, or Mako?
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So let's look at these three template languages
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all of which are totally viable choices for our web app
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and compare them and sort of see what the trade-offs are
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why you might choose one over the other and so on.
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So like I said there's these three options.
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We have Jinja2 and I would say really
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this is the most popular one of these.
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It's very much the default for Flask
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and now it is also become the default for Pyramid.
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So being the default means most people pick that
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and I believe Flask
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this is the only one that ships with it.
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So that really tilts the scale in it's favor if you will.
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There's also Mako.
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This is probably the least popular.
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This is the one I've seen the least of I guess
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but maybe I'm just not looking in the right places.
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But Mako and Jinja2 are pretty similar.
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And then Chameleon
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we've looked at Chameleon.
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And below you see the three packages that you have to install
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only one at a time
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for enabling that language in your web app.
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So pyramid_jinja2, pyramid_mako, or pyramid_chameleon.
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And if you pick the various options
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in that Cookiecutter template
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it will choose for you.
