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Instant Handlebars.js

By : Gabriel Manricks
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Instant Handlebars.js

By: Gabriel Manricks

Overview of this book

Handlebars is one of the leading JavaScript templating engines and is quickly gaining widespread adoption by developers, as well as with frameworks like Ember.js and Meteor. "Instant Handlebars.js" is a complete guide to the Handlebars library filled with internal concepts and practical examples that will help illustrate what's going on and take you from a complete beginner to a Handlebars expert. "Instant Handlebars.js" begins with the very basics, requiring no previous knowledge about templating engines. Throughout the course of this book, you get a thorough tour of all the features available in Handlebars.js and you will learn how to organize your websites for both development and production. In this book, we will cover how to create templates with both placeholders and helpers. We will then go into organizing your projects for rapid -development using Require.js and how to optimize and compile your projects for production. To finish off, you will learn how to annotate your code and leave debug points so that you can easily maintain and troubleshoot your code in the future. Handlebars is a small library;, it is meant to fill a specific need and it does this well. "Instant Handlebars.js" takes a very methodical approach to cover every aspect of this amazing library with practical examples provided every step of the way.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

About the Reviewers

Jonathan Christopher is a developer living in upstate New York with his wife Carrie and their son Micah. He focuses on both frontend and server-side development for his company Iron to Iron (http://irontoiron.com). He writes for Monday By Noon (http://mondaybynoon.com) and has also authored Client Oriented WordPress Development (https://clientwp.com).

Nuno Oliveira is a software engineer with over 10 years of professional experience. A windows developer for many years, he has an extensive background in the full life cycle of the software development process. He now concentrates on web development, working with ASP.net, PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. He currently lives in London, United Kingdom. You can always find him on twitter at @nm_oliveira.