How to configure partials and layouts for Handlebars in Sails.js?

Question

I run Sails 0.9.7 and have installed Handlebars which is supported by Consolidate.js and therefore is supported by Sails

I can serve pages from .handlebars

Answer 1

For configuring handlebars template in sails js , follow below steps:

1) install handlebars in your application's node_modules folder:

npm install handlebars

2) change your config/views.js

engine:   'handlebars',
layout:   'layouts/layout', // layouts is subfolder of view folder in sails app and layout is a handlebars inside layouts folder.
partials: 'partials'