Twig - Template language

Twig is an open source template language created in 2009.

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Twig is a template engine for the PHP programming language. Its syntax originates from Jinja and Django templates. It's an open source product licensed under a BSD License and maintained by Fabien Potencier. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: template language
Twig is developed on GitHub and has 37 stars
There are at least 5,791 Twig repos on GitHub
Twig is written in PHP, HTML
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 626 users using Twig in 811 repos on GitHub
CodeMirror package for syntax highlighting Twig
Monaco package for syntax highlighting Twig
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Twig
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Twig
See also: (9 related languages) PHP, Jinja, Django, Eclipse, Emacs, Sublime Text, TextMate, Vim, Smarty
4 PLDB concepts link to Twig: Ace Editor, Drupal, netbeans-editor, packagist-pm

Example from the web:

{% extends "base.html" %}
{% block navigation %}
    <ul id="navigation">
    {% for item in navigation %}
        <li>
            <a href="{{ item.href }}">
                {% if item.level == 2 %}&nbsp;&nbsp;{% endif %}
                {{ item.caption|upper }}
            </a>
        </li>
    {% endfor %}
    </ul>
{% endblock navigation %}

Example from Wikipedia:

{% extends "base.html" %}
{% block navigation %}
    <ul id="navigation">
    {% for item in navigation %}
        <li>
            <a href="{{ item.href }}">
                {% if item.level == 2 %}&nbsp;&nbsp;{% endif %}
                {{ item.caption|upper }}
            </a>
        </li>
    {% endfor %}
    </ul>
{% endblock navigation %}

Twig Keywords

apply autoescape block deprecated do embed extends flush for from if import include macro sandbox set use verbatim with endapply endautoescape endblock endembed endfor endif endmacro endsandbox endset endwith true false

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Conditionals	✓
Inheritance	✓
Booleans	✓		true false
Comments	✓	{# A comment #}
MultiLine Comments	✓	{# A comment #}	{# #}