Templating is crucial for separating your business logic from your presentation, but if your web app depends heavily on Ajax, it can be difficult to maintain both server and client-side templates without duplication. It can be useful to choose a templating engine which provides both client and server-side support allowing maximum reusability. Learn how to share your templates between PHP and JavaScript using Mustache.

Web applications use MVC architectures to separate business logic from the presentation views. Complex projects which involves large amounts of client side HTML manipulation with JavaScript can be difficult to maintain. In such scenarios we can use template systems to increase reusability and ease the task of managing views.

Mustache.js provides a well documented template system which can be used to manage your templates. And, since mustache supports various languages, we don’t need a separate templating system on the server side. This article covers the basics of working with mustache.