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

Sails supports handlebars and its (multiple-layout, partials) natively, if we use .handlebars extensions for our files instead of .hbs.

So to use handlebars in Sails instead of EJS, it advised to use consolidate(Its a template engine consolation library). Handlebars works good with SailsJs + consolidate.

You need to install consolidate.

npm install consolidate --save

And then you just have to update the config/views.js file with the following content.

module.exports.views = {

engine: {
    ext: 'handlebars',
    fn: require("consolidate").handlebars
  },

layout: 'layouts/layout',

partials: 'partials/'

};

Update all your .ebs files to .handlebar files and update the code inside it.

Everything will work fine.

There is a view-generator, for the later purpose which will generate default views for Sails(It will make a default directory structure with default files in it).

You can find it in the github repository.(https://github.com/bhaskarmelkani/sails-generate-views-hbs)

It is similar to the one officially launched by SailsJs for jade called balderdashy/sails-generate-views-jade.