What templating engine does SFCC use?

SFCC utilizes ISML (Interchangeable Shopfront Markup Language) as its templating engine. ISML is specifically designed for the Salesforce Commerce Cloud ecosystem, which allows developers to efficiently create dynamic and interactive web pages for e-commerce applications. This templating language enhances the separation of logic and presentation by allowing developers to embed server-side logic directly within HTML files, thus enabling them to include dynamic content like product information or user details seamlessly.

ISML provides features such as template inheritance, conditional rendering, and iteration, which are crucial for building complex, data-driven user interfaces in a structured manner. By using ISML, developers can take full advantage of the features offered by Salesforce Commerce Cloud, ensuring optimal performance and maintainability of the code.

In contrast, other templating engines like Handlebars, Mustache, and Liquid serve different environments or frameworks. Handlebars and Mustache are often used in client-side JavaScript applications and are less suited for the needs of a back-end platform like Salesforce Commerce Cloud. Liquid is primarily used in Shopify and other Ruby-based frameworks, making it less applicable to SFCC's specific requirements.