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Handlebars.js
ByHandlebars.jsHandlebars.js

Handlebars.js

#3in Templating Languages & Extensions
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What is Handlebars.js?

Handlebars.js is an extension to the Mustache templating language created by Chris Wanstrath. Handlebars.js and Mustache are both logicless templating languages that keep the view and the code separated like we all know they should be.

Handlebars.js is a tool in the Templating Languages & Extensions category of a tech stack.

Handlebars.js Pros & Cons

Pros of Handlebars.js

  • ✓Simple
  • ✓Great templating language
  • ✓Open source
  • ✓Logicless
  • ✓Integrates well into any codebase
  • ✓Easy to create helper methods for complex scenarios
  • ✓Created by Yehuda Katz
  • ✓Easy For Fornt End Developers,learn backend
  • ✓Awesome

Cons of Handlebars.js

No cons listed yet.

Handlebars.js Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Handlebars.js?

TypeScript

TypeScript

TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. It's a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.

Mustache

Mustache

Mustache is a logic-less template syntax. It can be used for HTML, config files, source code - anything. It works by expanding tags in a template using values provided in a hash or object. We call it "logic-less" because there are no if statements, else clauses, or for loops. Instead there are only tags. Some tags are replaced with a value, some nothing, and others a series of values.

Jinja

Jinja

It is a full featured template engine for Python. It has full unicode support, an optional integrated sandboxed execution environment, widely used and BSD licensed.

Smarty

Smarty

Facilitating the separation of presentation (HTML/CSS) from application logic. This implies that PHP code is application logic, and is separated from the presentation

Pug

Pug

This project was formerly known as "Jade." Pug is a high performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml and implemented with JavaScript for Node.js and browsers.

EJS

EJS

It is a simple templating language that lets you generate HTML markup with plain JavaScript. No religiousness about how to organize things. No reinvention of iteration and control-flow. It's just plain JavaScript.

Handlebars.js Integrations

Mustache, squido are some of the popular tools that integrate with Handlebars.js. Here's a list of all 2 tools that integrate with Handlebars.js.

Mustache
Mustache
squido
squido

Handlebars.js Discussions

Discover why developers choose Handlebars.js. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.

Jonathan Fries
Jonathan Fries

VP of Development

Jun 20, 2017

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Also used by ghost. Extensive editing of templates to keep my theme running and change what the theme does when I run into limitations. Handlebars.js

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Kent Steiner
Kent Steiner

Feb 28, 2017

Needs adviceonHandlebars.jsHandlebars.js

Handlebars for me has taken a back seat since my full embrace of React, but previous to React it (along with its predecessor mustache) I used it heavily, both server and client side, in multiple languages. Handlebars.js

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Onezino Gabriel
Onezino Gabriel

Sep 5, 2016

Needs adviceonHandlebars.jsHandlebars.js

Ferramenta de template para o cliente web utilizado por padrão no ember.js Handlebars.js

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Francisco Facal
Francisco Facal

Aug 6, 2015

Needs adviceonHandlebars.jsHandlebars.js

Our template engine! We combined hb with a powerful cache system we built on top of it. Handlebars.js

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Tarun Singh
Tarun Singh

Jan 4, 2015

Needs adviceonHandlebars.jsHandlebars.js

Used Handlebars to decouple the html from javascript, hence makes it more manageable. Handlebars.js

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