JQuery Templates/View Engines in ASP.NET MVC

Introduction

Microsoft ASP.NET MVC framework follows a standard MVC pattern - the Model contains data that will be shown, the Controller performs actions when some event happens, initializes the Model, and passes it to the View, and the View takes a Model and renders the HTML output that would be sent to the client browser. This architecture is shown on the following figure:

Client(browser) sends some HTTP web request to the server-side. On the server we have controllers that handles request, takes the data using the model, and pass it to the view. View generates HTML that should be sent back to client. In MVC 3, there are several view engines that can be used - standard ASP.NET view engine, Razor, Spark, NHaml, etc. All of these view engines use different syntax for generating the view; however, they are all working in the same way - the model is taken on the server-side, formatted using the template, and HTML is sent to the client browser.  View more