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empz
empz

Reputation: 11788

Precompiling handlebars template with custom helpers

I have a message.handlebars template which works perfect when compiling it in the browser.

I precompiled it with handlebars -message.handlebars -f -message.js successfuly.

Then in my ASP.NET MVC site I'm adding the references as:

<script src="~/Scripts/handlebars.runtime-v1.3.0.js"></script>
<script src="~/Scripts/handlebars-helpers.js"></script>
<script src="~/Scripts/templates/message.js"></script>

The handlebars-helpers.js contains some custom helpers used by the message template.

I took this approach from this guy's comment, but it's not working. I'm getting an error when doing var html = Handlebars.templates.message(data);. Again this works perfectly when compiling it in the browser, so it's not a problem of context.

The error I'm getting is: enter image description here

Is this the correct approach to precompile and use custom helpers? Or is there a way to include those helpers in the precompiled template?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1967

Answers (1)

empz
empz

Reputation: 11788

It was the version of handlebars on the server. NPM installs the latest by default and the version 2 alpha was causing the issue. Found this fix on Github (https://github.com/wycats/handlebars.js/issues/734):

npm uninstall handlebars -g
npm install [email protected] -g

Everything working!

Upvotes: 1

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