Handlebars is a really simple and easy-to-use templating framework. It works on the principle of interpolation of data within the template. To get an overview of Handlebars, consider the following block diagram:
Here, the compile method accepts the HTML expression templates and results in a function with a parameter.
Let's go through and explore the basic syntax of writing a Handlebars template.
Let's assume that the following JavaScript object is passed to a Handlebars template:
let context = {
name: 'World'
}; The template file itself will contain the following markup:
let source = `<div>
Hello {{ name }}!
</div>` The preceding markup contains name as the HTML expression that will be interpolated by its context object.
We need to write the JavaScript method that makes it work, as follows:
let template = Handlebars.compile(source);
let output = template(context);This output variable will...