handlebars.js

I have been playing a bit with Node.js. I recently started toying with Express and have been setting up a basic app. I wanted to use Handlebars as my view templating engine, but am hitting a wall - failed to locate view "index.html" I have index.html in the same directory as app.js and and so I would think the code below would have no problem locating index.html... I have searched around, but it would seem that comprehensive examples of anything aside from jade are rare... Anyone have experience with this combo? Thanks in advance! var express = require('express') , app = express.createServer()

I've been messing around with a backbone.js app using require.js and a handlebars templates (I've added the AMD module stuff to handlebars) and just read that pre-compiling the templates can speed it up a fair bit. I was wondering how I would go about including the precompiled templates with requirejs. I have a fair few templates to compile (upwards of 15), so i'm not sure if they should all be in the same output file or have their own once compiled. Also, from what it seems, the compiled templates share the same Handlebars namespace that the renderer script uses, so I'm not sure how I would

I'm definitely missing something about the way Handlebars works. I need to call different partials depending on the value of a variable. Currently the only way I've found to do it is this: <template name="base"> {{#if a}}{{> a}}{{/if}} {{#if b}}{{> b}}{{/if}} {{#if c}}{{> c}}{{/if}} </template> And in the corresponding JS: Template.base.a = function () { return (mode === "a"); } Template.base.b = function () { return (mode === "b"); } Template.base.c = function () { return (mode === "c"); } ...which strikes me as extremely verbose. What I'd really like to do is something like: <template name=

I'm trying to write a function that will give me a compiled handlebars template (I have all my templates in separate files) using an ajax call to get the template and compile it for use, but I need to use a promise so I can actually use it. function getTemplate(name){ $.get('/'+name+'.hbs').success(function(src){ var template = Handlebars.compile(src); //can't return the template here. }); } How do I do this with promises so I can do something like: $("a").click(function(e){ getTemplate('form').done(function(template){ $("body").append(template({ name: "My Name" }) ); }); }); Chovy, I see you

I'm playing around with ember.js and am stuck somehow finding out how to build up the structure the right way. I could follow all examples , but have some problems putting them all together. I'm using require.js and handlebars. My directory structure looks like this: - app - - controllers - - css - - helpers - - lib - - models - - routes - - templates - - - partials - - views My application.js looks like this: require.config({ paths:{ jquery:'lib/jquery-1.7.2', handlebars:'lib/handlebars', ember:'lib/ember', ember_data:'lib/ember-data', text:'lib/requireJS/text', md5:'lib/md5', spin:'lib/spin'

I am using Ember, Ember Data, and Handlebars to display a timeline with a number of different types of models. My current implementation, though functioning properly, seems like it could be drastically improved with a convention and a helper. However, I can't figure out how to use already defined templates. This is what I have: {{#view App.AccountSelectedView contentBinding="App.selectedAccountController.everythingSorted"}} {{#with content}} <ol class="timeline"> {{#each this}} {{#is constructor="App.Design"}} ... stuff about the design {{/is}} {{#is constructor="App.Order"}} ... stuff about

For example, I have this JSON document "foo.json": { "foo": [ { "bar": "Hello World!" }, { "bar": "The End" } ] } In Node.js, I would like to use templating (handlebars or any) to generate a string from the JSON document, such as: <p>Hello World!</p><p>The End</p> ... And then assign that string value to a variable in Node.js. Finally, I'll concatenate more values to the variable and output the final variable value as an html document. Can this be done without using a framework like Express? If you want to use handlebars, just grab the npm module: npm install handlebars Then in your script,

In Handlebars, say i have a collection of names how can i do {{#each names}} {{position}} {{name}} {{/each}} where {{position}} is 1 for the first name, 2 for the second name etc. Do I absolutely have to store the position as a key in the collection? You can do this with the built-in Handlebars @index notation: {{#each array}} {{@index}}: {{this}} {{/each}} @index will give the (zero-based) index of each item in the given array. Please note for people using Handlebars with the Razor view engine you must use the notation @@index to avoid compilation errors. For more built-in helpers see http:/