Compare with RazorLight.

[MNF]

Could you please add to Readme comparison, why someone should choose your library compare to https://github.com/toddams/RazorLight.

Just as curiosity, what was the reason to create an alternative library, when one similar already existed?

[adoconnection]

Hi! First of all I appreciate toddams's work and it's great to have a choice of what library to use.

RazorLight as I see it, although it can render strings, it is aiming to be view engine framework detached from MVC relying on files a lot.
Wheres my implementration aiming to be "I just want to render template from string" library. No asking any extras.

At a time I started RazorEngineCore I was looking for a library to be able:

• save / load compiled templates - RazorLight does not support it
• transparent caching - RazorLight have ICachingProvider but you are unable to implement anything but memory cache
• transparent compiled template handling - once I have a template handle I can render it at any time unlike RazorLight where I have to construct entire engine every time.
• custom template properties and methods (https://github.com/adoconnection/RazorEngineCore#helpers-and-custom-members)
• personally CompileRenderString method is making me nuts :) as a questionable decision to blindly migrate it from https://github.com/Antaris/RazorEngine
• RazorLight is HTML safe by default, RazorEngineCore is HTML unsafe by default (see wiki: @Raw)

noone was able to provide that, so I did RazorEngineCore
Basically we do the same, but I strongly belive razor engine should work in a way RazorEngineCore do and not like RazorLight :)

[MNF]

Great answer.
Please consider to copy to Readme or Wiki (or link from them to this answer)

[304NotModified]

• razorlight is by default safe for producing html, as it does html encoding by default (opt out). Unfortunately not that case for RazorEngineCore

[benmccallum]

Is that true @adoconnection regarding no html encoding by default? That's a bit of a deal breaker for me as we've got client input being sent around by emails.

RazorLight looks a little unmaintained for my liking though, has been on rc forever. Rock and a hard place at the moment.

[304NotModified]

RazorLight looks a little unmaintained for my liking though, has been on rc forever.

Also noticed that indeed.

Is that true @adoconnection regarding no html encoding by default? That's a bit of a deal breaker for me as we've got client input being sent around by emails.

See #65. But those are work arounds and won't work for every case. Also it uses a prerelease package

[adoconnection]

I have updated #65 to keep HTML safety discussion in one issue.

[adoconnection]

I have started wiki page to close this issue.
all improvements are welcome!

https://github.com/adoconnection/RazorEngineCore/wiki/Package-comparison