Can Mustache Templates do template extension?

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I recently found myself in the same boat, except I came from a mako background.

Mustache does not allow for template extension/inheritance but there are a few options available to you that I know of.

  1. You could use partials:

    {{>header}}
    Hello {{name}}
{{>footer}}

  2. You could inject template pre-processing functions into the context for each template that needs to inherit from some other page: 

    {{#extendBase}}      
    Hello {{name}}
{{/extendBase}}

    Hash:

    {
   "name": "Walden",
   "extendBase": function() {
       return function(text) {
           return "<html><head></head>" + render(text) + "</body></html>"
       }
   }
}

  3. Prepend and append the desired HTML to the relevant pages in your controller.

  4. Have a layout template ala:

    {{>header}}
    {{{body}}}
{{>footer}}

    And render the body in your controller, passing that to the layout template as a variable named body.

  5. Implement template inheritance, pre-mustache, in your code that loads templates.

I wouldn’t, however, use the triple mustache because I don’t want unescaped HTML to be appearing anywhere, it’s just too risky in my opinion.

If someone else has a better solution to this problem I’d love to hear it as well, since I haven’t yet taken the plunge in any one of these directions.

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