Using Handlebars with Backbone

Using handlebars.js instead of underscore templating is pretty straightforward. Check out this example: https://cdnjs.com/libraries/backbone.js/tutorials/what-is-a-view (scroll to the “Loading a Template” section) SearchView = Backbone.View.extend({ initialize: function(){ this.render(); }, render: function(){ // Compile the template using underscore var template = _.template( $(“#search_template”).html(), {} ); // Load the compiled HTML into the Backbone “el” this.el.html( template ); … Read more

What is the difference between handlebar.js and handlebar.runtime.js?

Handlebars uses tags that look like {{this}} that can not be natively understood by the browser. In order for the browser to render these tags, they have to be compiled. Compilation can happen either before or after you load the page. To speed things up, you can precompile your templates. More info at the handlebars … Read more

Check for a value equals to in Ember Handlebar If block helper

The {{#if}} helper can only test for properties, not arbitrary expressions. The best thing to do in cases like this is therefore to write a property computing whatever conditional you want to test for. personIsJohn: function() { return this.get(‘person’) === ‘John’; }.property(‘person’) Then do {{#if personIsJohn}}. Note: If you find this too limiting, you can … Read more

Does handlebars.js replace newline characters with ?

It doesn’t do so automatically, but using the helpers feature this can be achieved: JS: Handlebars.registerHelper(‘breaklines’, function(text) { text = Handlebars.Utils.escapeExpression(text); text = text.replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/gm, ‘<br>’); return new Handlebars.SafeString(text); }); HTML template: <div> {{breaklines description}} </div>

How to make i18n with Handlebars.js (mustache templates)?

I know this has been answered, but I’d like to share my simple solution. To build on Gazler’s solution using I18n.js (which we use with our project at work), I just used a very simple Handlebars helper to facilitate the process to do the localization on the fly: Handler Handlebars.registerHelper(‘I18n’, function(str){ return (I18n != undefined … Read more

Handlebars Template rendering template as text

I assume that unescaping in Handlebars works the same as in vanilla Mustache. In that case use triple mustaches to unescape html, i,e: {{{unescapedhtml}}}, like: <script id=”quiz-result” type=”text/x-handlebars-template”> {{#each rounds}} {{{round_end_result}}} {{/each}} <div class=”clear”></div> for ref see: http://mustache.github.com/mustache.5.html