Triazole-based energetic compound is a new class of energetic materials with the features of high heat of formation， high nitrogen content and good thermal stability. In this paper， the latest research achievements on synthesis of more than 40 series of energetic compounds based on mono-triazole， bis-triazole， pyrazole-triazole， oxadiazole-triazole and tetrazole-triazole were reviewed， and the performances of some compounds were introduced in detail. It is showed that designing new triazole-based energetic compounds based on structure-performance relationship and balancing energy and safety are the effective strategy to develop high energy and insensitive energetic compounds. On this basis， design and synthesis of cage triazole-based energetic compounds are the promising developing direction. The application study of existing triazole-based energetic compounds with outstanding overall performance is proposed.