yhandlebars is a YUI handlebars based command-line application for precompiling templates as YUI modules. Checkout the official Handlebars docs site at www.handlebarsjs.com and the official YUI Handlebars docs at yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/handlebars/.
Handlebars allows templates to be precompiled and included as javascript code rather than the handlebars template allowing for faster startup time.
The precompiler script may be installed via npm using the npm install -g yhandlebars command.
Precompile handlebar templates.
Usage: yhandlebars <template> ...
Options:
-f, --output Output File [string]
-k, --known Known helpers [string]
-o, --knownOnly Known helpers only [boolean]
-m, --min Minimize output [boolean]
-s, --simple Output template function only. [boolean]
-r, --root Template root. Base value that will be stripped from template names. [string]
-n, --namespace Namespace in which the templates object will reside under the Y instance. [string] [default: "Handlebars"]
-p, --plain Plain module output without YUI.add(...) wrapper function. [boolean]
If using the simple mode the precompiler will generate a single javascript method.
If using the precompiler's normal mode, the resulting templates will be stored
to the Y.Handlebars.templates object using the relative template name sans the
extension. These templates may be executed in the same manner as templates.
To change the location where the templates object should be stored on the Y instance
just pass a namespace argument like this -n NS and the templates will be stored to
Y.NS.templates.
The compiler will also precompile *.mustache and *.hbs files.
The templates will be wrapped in a YUI.add(...) call to be used as a YUI module.
The name of the module will be the relative -f output file name sans the extension.
If the -f argument is not given the module name will default to handlebars-templates.
Since the module is configured to require handlebars-base you can simply use the
module in YUI like this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>My Favorite Food</title>
<body>
<div id="content"></div>
<script src="http://yui.yahooapis.com/3.6.0/build/yui/yui-min.js"></script>
<script>
YUI().use("handlebars-templates", "node", function (Y) {
// Render the template and insert its output into the page.
var output = Y.Handlebars.templates["my-template"]({food: "pie"});
Y.one("#content").append(output);
});
</script>
</body>
yhandlebars is a port of the handlebarsjs command-line application to YUI handlebars.