What are the advantages of Twig over Handlebars for front-end templating?
The question is about Twig
Twig offers many advantages over Handlebars for frontend templating, most especially in projects based on PHP. Twig boasts an even more robust set of features: advanced control structures, template inheritance, and built-in security, such as automatic output escaping that helps prevent XSS attacks. Its syntax is cleaner, enabling developers to conditionally use statements, and loops, or create custom filters in the template itself to allow complex data manipulation and presentation. Twig also advocates for stronger separation of logic and presentation, hence yielding cleaner, modular templates. While Handlebars champions the cause of a “logic-less” philosophy, allowing the least amount of logic within templates, Twig is more flexible; it’s easily combined with PHP frameworks, such as Symfony, thus being suitable for projects where flexibility both in the front and integration with the back end are required.
