Handlebars.js parse object instead of [Object object]

Question

I\'m using Handlebars templates and JSON data is already represented in [Object object], how do I parse this data outside of the Handlebars? For example, I\'m trying to popu

Answer 1

When outputting {{user}}, Handlebars will first retrieve the user's .toString() value. For plain Objects, the default result of this is the "[object Object]" you're seeing.

To get something more useful, you'll either want to display a specific property of the object:

{{user.id}}
{{user.name}}

Or, you can use/define a helper to format the object differently:

Handlebars.registerHelper('json', function(context) {
    return JSON.stringify(context);
});

myView = new myView({
    user : {{{json user}}} // note triple brackets to disable HTML encoding
});