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Zander
Zander

Reputation: 2684

Is it possible to compile handlebars templates to html?

I would like to compile a handlebars template to insert into a static html page. I am currently using a very simple implementation of handlebars where I use AJAX to pull in the data.json and a template in the form of a script tag in my markup: <script id="tpl" type="text/x-handlebars-template">.

Ideally I would like to use Grunt to compile my template into a new html file, is this possible?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2458

Answers (2)

Jordan Kasper
Jordan Kasper

Reputation: 13273

I would take a look at the assemble grunt plugin. We use for a very large site and it's probably the best handlebars preprocessor I've seen. That said, I'm not sure how it handles (or if it does) the <script type="text/x-handlerbars-template"> tags (versus partials in separate files). We use it with separate files per partial and the task is something like:

assemble: {
  options: {
    partials: [ "partials/**/*.hbs" ],
    data: [ "data/**/*.yml" ]
  },
  pages: {
    src: [ "views/*.hbs" ],
    dest: "build/"
  }
}

Obviously your setup will be different, but hopefully you get the general idea.

Upvotes: 3

Simon Boudrias
Simon Boudrias

Reputation: 44589

Applying the handlebars template output HTML... Just pass data in, and save the outputted HTML to a file.

I don't know any tools doing this process for you. But it would be very easy to implement.

Upvotes: 1

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