exphbs

A Handlebars view engine for Express.

Features

Layouts:

• Declaring layout with a render option or template comment ({{!< layout}})
• Nested layouts with arbitrary depth

Partials:

• Autoloading from defined directory (defaults to views/partials)
• Namespaced partial names (based on relative paths)
• Supports any file extension (defaults to hbs and html)
• Dynamically applying changes during development

Helpers:

• Autoloading from defined directory (defaults to views/helpers)

Block inheritance:

• Defining named blocks in layouts then extend them in templates

Variables:

• Defining @variables that can be accessed from any context in a template

Precompiling:

• Templates and partials are precompiled and cached in production

Instances:

• Creating a new instance of separate cache
• Instantiating with user-provided Handlebars object

Getting started

Installation:

$ npm install exphbs

Registering view engine:

app.engine('hbs', require('exphbs'));
app.set('view engine', 'hbs');

Default directory structure:

.
├── app.js
└─┬ views/
  ├── index.hbs
  ├── helpers/
  ├── layouts/
  └── partials/

Example

Check out example directory for a complete example. You can play around with it on Runnable.

Docs

• View engine
• Render options
• Variables
• Layouts
• Partials
• Helpers
• Block inheritance

Tests

$ npm install
$ npm test

License

MIT