Congratulations for making it this far. You are now an expert on both using and implementing Handlebars in your own apps. But having a set of skills or preferred libraries always requires you to subscribe to them: keeping up with changes they make, and even contributing ideas and code, advancing your environment even further. In this section we will be taking a look at both some of the people and also some of the places you should follow, so as to stay up to date and dive deeper into the Handlebars community.
The first place I would like to single out is the official Handlebars site at http://handlebarsjs.com/. If you have any questions or are just looking to see whether there have been any changes, this is a good place to look first (not to mention you can support the project and buy some Handlebars gear).
Handlebars is not a large library; it's made to solve one specific issue and it does it well. With that said, I think it is the kind of library where you can take some time and learn the source. You may need to whip out a pad of paper and some markers to draw out the event flows, and maybe even debug it in JavaScript, but it's more than worth it. The compiled final source can be found at https://raw.github.com/wycats/handlebars.js/1.0.0/dist/handlebars.js, and while it does sometimes get a bit technical, there are some good coding concepts you can pick up, as well as learn some of Handlebars inner workings, which you can take advantage of at will.
To view the rest of the source, you can just view the entire repo here at https://github.com/wycats/handlebars.js. This is also where you will want to post issues, as well as make pull-requests to add new features.
Also, if you would like to learn more about require.js and what it can do, be sure to take a look at its official homepage http://requirejs.org/: it contains a lot of good information.
Another resource that has become almost essential to any library is Stack Overflow. For pretty much any library around, you can ask both questions as well as contribute answers, or view solved problems. Just search for questions tagged Handlebars or even add your own at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/handlebars.
Another great site where I personally published two articles is NetTuts+. You can find the articles here:
There is also a great series on Treehouse at the following links:
A templating engine is really only one piece of a web app, and while you can really implement Handlebars into any framework, there are some that use Handlebars by default and come preconfigured with it.
Ember.js is an amazing web framework built by the creator of Handlebars, Yehuda Katz, and as such it embeds Handlebars deep within its core, so there is no need to pre-compile templates or load different scripts, as a lot of it is taken care of for you. It implements smart code generation, so you really only code the minimum, and I highly recommend you visit http://emberjs.com/, if you are serious about learning Ember.js.
Another framework, which comes pre-installed with Handlebars, is Meteor.js. Meteor is both a client and a frontend and backend framework that abstracts this connection to try and make your app update in real time, by persisting all changes to the backend and syncing any new updates to your browser at http://www.meteor.com/.